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The physical basis of the direction of time /

3540420819

9783540420811

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b433609

The physical basis of the direction of time /

[Book]

H. Dieter Zeh

Fourth edition

x, 231 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index

1. The Physical Concept of Time -- 2. The Time Arrow of Radiation -- 2.1. Retarded and Advanced Forms of the Boundary Value Problem -- 2.2. Thermodynamical and Cosmological Properties of Absorbers -- 2.3. Radiation Damping -- 2.4. The Absorber Theory of Radiation -- 3. The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time -- 3.1. The Derivation of Classical Master Equations -- 3.2. Zwanzig's General Formalism of Master Equations -- 3.3. Thermodynamics and Information -- 3.4. Semigroups and the Emergence of Order -- 4. The Quantum Mechanical Arrow of Time -- 4.1. The Formal Analogy -- 4.2. Ensembles Versus Entanglement -- 4.3. Decoherence -- 4.4. Quantum Dynamical Maps -- 4.5. Exponential Decay and 'Causality' in Scattering -- 4.6. The Time Arrow of Various Interpretations of Quantum Theory -- 5. The Time Arrow of Spacetime Geometry -- 5.1. Thermodynamics of Black Holes -- 5.2. Thermodynamics of Acceleration -- 5.3. Expansion of the Universe -- 5.4. Geometrodynamics and Intrinsic Time -- 6. The Time Arrow in Quantum Cosmology -- 6.1. Phase Transitions of the Vacuum -- 6.2. Quantum Gravity and the Quantization of Time -- App. A Simple Numerical Toy Model

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Direction of time

Physics-- Philosophy

Space and time

Thermodynamics

Time

QC

Zeh, H. D., (Heinz Dieter),1932-

20160712070130.0

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