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Time's arrow & Archimedes' point : new directions for the physics of time /

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Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Huw, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, ©1996.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Time.
Physics > Philosophy.
Temps.
Physique > Philosophie.
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Physics > Philosophy
Time
Tijd.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The View from Nowhen; 2 "More Apt to Be Lost than Got": The Lessons of the Second Law; 3 New Light on the Arrow of Radiation; 4 Arrows and Errors in Contemporary Cosmology; 5 Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics; 6 In Search of the Third Arrow; 7 Convention Objectified and the Past Unlocked; 8 Einstein's Issue: The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory; 9 The Case for Advanced Action; 10 Overview; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.