Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry (Paperback, New Ed)

In the world about us, the past is distinctly different from the future. More precisely, we say that the processes going on in the world about us are asymmetric in time or display an arrow of time. Yet this manifest fact of our experience is particularly difficult to explain in terms of the fundamental laws of physics. Newton's laws, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, Einstein's theory of gravity, etc., make no distinction between past and future - they are time-symmetric. Reconciliation of these profoundly conflicting facts is the topic of this volume. It is an interdisciplinary survey of the variety of interconnected phenomena defining arrows of time, and their possible explanations in terms of underlying time-symmetric laws of physics.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	1994
Editors:	J. J. Halliwell • J. Perez-Mercader • W. H. Zurek
Dimensions:	235 x 191 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	536
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-56837-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-56837-4
Barcode:	9780521568371

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