001478189 000__ 06345nam\a22008535i\4500 001478189 001__ 1478189 001478189 003__ DE-B1597 001478189 005__ 20231026034849.0 001478189 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478189 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478189 008__ 230103t20032000mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478189 020__ $$a9780674020139 001478189 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674020139$$2doi 001478189 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574447 001478189 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294423509 001478189 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478189 0410_ $$aeng 001478189 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478189 050_4 $$aQC173.59.T53 ǂb A43 2000eb 001478189 072_7 $$aSCI075000$$2bisacsh 001478189 08204 $$a530.1 001478189 1001_ $$aAlbert, David Z, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478189 24510 $$aTime and Chance /$$cDavid Z Albert. 001478189 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2003] 001478189 264_4 $$c©2000 001478189 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001478189 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478189 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478189 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478189 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478189 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPREFACE -- $$tCHAPTER ONE TIME-REVERSAL INVARIANCE -- $$tCHAPTER TWO THERMODYNAMICS -- $$tCHAPTER THREE STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- $$tCHAPTER FOUR THE REVERSIBILITY OBJECTIONS AND THE PAST-HYPOTHESIS -- $$tCHAPTER FIVE THE SCOPE OF THERMODYNAMICS -- $$tCHAPTER SIX THE ASYMMETRIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTERVENTION -- $$tCHAPTER SEVEN QUANTUM MECHANICS -- $$tAPPENDIX GEDANKENEXPERIMENTS WITH HEAT ENGINES -- $$tINDEX 001478189 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478189 520__ $$aThis 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 backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. 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. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Time-Reversal Invariance 2. Thermodynamics 3. Statistical Mechanics 4. The Reversibility Objections and the Past-Hypothesis 5. The Scope of Thermodynamics 6. The Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention 7. Quantum Mechanics Appendix: Gedankenexperiments with Heat Engines Index Reviews of this book: The foundations of statistical mechanisms are often presented in physics textbooks in a rather obscure and confused way. By challenging common ways of thinking about this subject, Time and Chance can do quite a lot to improve this situation.--Jean Bricmont, ScienceAlbert is perfecting a style of foundational analysis that is uniquely his own.It has a surgical precision.and it is ruthless with pretensions. The foundations of thermodynamics is a topic that has accumulated a good deal of dead wood; this is a fire that will burn and burn.--Simon W. Saunders, Oxford UniversityAs usual with Albert's work, the exposition is brisk and to the point, and exceptionally clear.The book will be an extremely valuable contribution to the literature on the subject of philosophical issues in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, a literature which has been thin on the ground but is now growing as it deserves to.--Lawrence Sklar, University of Michigan 001478189 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478189 546__ $$aIn English. 001478189 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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