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- catalog abstract ""This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures - and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense - that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backward." "The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11789130.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures - and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense - that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backward."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Time-reversal invariance -- Thermodynamics -- Statistical mechanics -- The reversibility objections and the past-hypothesis -- The scope of thermodynamics -- The asymmetrics of knowledge and intervention -- Quantum mechanics.".
- catalog extent "xi, 172 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Time and chance.".
- catalog identifier "0674003179 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Time and chance.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Time and chance.".
- catalog subject "530.11 21".
- catalog subject "Physics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "QC173.59.T53 A43 2000".
- catalog subject "Time reversal.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Time-reversal invariance -- Thermodynamics -- Statistical mechanics -- The reversibility objections and the past-hypothesis -- The scope of thermodynamics -- The asymmetrics of knowledge and intervention -- Quantum mechanics.".
- catalog title "Time and chance / David Z Albert.".
- catalog type "text".