Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry

Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry
ISBN-10
0521568374
ISBN-13
9780521568371
Category
Science
Pages
536
Language
English
Published
1996-03-21
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
J. J. Halliwell, J. Pérez-Mercader, W. H. Zurek

Description

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. This volume reconciles these profoundly conflicting facts.

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