{"product_id":"physical-origins-of-time-asymmetry-paperback-9780521568371","title":"Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry (Paperback) 9780521568371","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePhysical Origins of Time Asymmetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn interdisciplinary survey of the variety of inter-connected phenomena defining arrows of time, and their possible explanations in terms of underlying time-symmetric laws of physics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. J. Halliwell (Edited by), J. Pérez-Mercader (Edited by), W. H. Zurek (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521568371, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 21 March 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e536 pages, 61 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 19.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.91 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'…an in-depth introduction to a fascinating set of inter-related topics about the nature of time. It is written at a level that is sure to be stimulating to a sophisticated theorist while still accessible to a young graduate student.' Physics Today\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the world about us, the past is distinctly different from the future. More precisely, 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. Newton's laws, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, Einstein's theory of gravity, etc., make no distinction between past and future - they are time-symmetric. Reconciliation of these profoundly conflicting facts is the topic of this volume. It is an interdisciplinary survey of the variety of interconnected phenomena defining arrows of time, and their possible explanations in terms of underlying time-symmetric laws of physics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Investigations of quantum decoherence A. Albrecht\u003cbr\u003e 2. The emergence of time and its arrow from timelessness J. Barbour\u003cbr\u003e 3. Complexity C. Bennet\u003cbr\u003e 4. Unorthodox thoughts about time I. Bialynicki-Birula\u003cbr\u003e 5. Temperature and time in the geometry of rotating black holes J. D. Brown and J. W. York\u003cbr\u003e 6. Information, chaos and statistical physics C. Caves\u003cbr\u003e 7. Time asymmetry and the flow of information T. Cover\u003cbr\u003e 8. Decoherence without complexity and without an arrow of time B. Dewitt\u003cbr\u003e 9. The decoherence functional in quantum mechanics F. Dowker\u003cbr\u003e 10. Quantum cosmology and the arrow of time M. Gell-Mann\u003cbr\u003e 11. Wormholes and time asymmetry P. Gonzalez-Diaz\u003cbr\u003e 12. Statistical irreversibility: classical and quantum R. Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e 13. Time asymmetry and quantum cosmology J. Halliwell\u003cbr\u003e 14. The arrow of time in quantum mechanics J. Hartle\u003cbr\u003e 15. My greatest mistake S. Hawking\u003cbr\u003e 16. Fluctuation-dissipation in quantum fields and gravitational entropy B. Hu\u003cbr\u003e 17. Time and interpretation of quantum gravity K. Kuchar\u003cbr\u003e 18. The arrow of time in the Hartle-Hawking wave function R. Lafflamme\u003cbr\u003e 19. Quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and the origins of time asymmetry J. Lebowitz\u003cbr\u003e 20. Information flow S. Lloyd\u003cbr\u003e 21. Times at early times J. Louko\u003cbr\u003e 22. Time, information and quantum correlations W. Miller\u003cbr\u003e 23. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem in general relativity and the cosmological constant E. Mottola\u003cbr\u003e 24. Time asymmetry and the interpretation of quantum mechanics V. Mukhanov\u003cbr\u003e 25. Logical time asymmetry in quantum mechanics R. Omnes\u003cbr\u003e 26. Stirring up trouble P. C. W. Davies\u003cbr\u003e 27. Time, quantum cosmology and Mach's principle T. Padmanabhan\u003cbr\u003e 28. Entropy versus clock time D. Page\u003cbr\u003e 29. Decoherence and back-reaction J. Paz\u003cbr\u003e 30. Essay on time J. Perez-Mercadier\u003cbr\u003e 31. Time-symmetric cosmology and definite quantum measurements L. Schulman\u003cbr\u003e 32. Demonic heat engines and the second law B. Schumacher\u003cbr\u003e 33. Decoherence and the arrow of time in the inflationary scenario A. Starobinsky\u003cbr\u003e 34. Essay on time C. Teitelboim\u003cbr\u003e 35. Time in quantum gravity W. Unruh\u003cbr\u003e 36. Instability, escape and chaos in a driven asymmetric non-linear oscillator M. Velarde\u003cbr\u003e 37. How come time? J. Wheeler\u003cbr\u003e 38. Is time asymmetry logically prior to quantum mechanics W. Wootters\u003cbr\u003e 39. Time (A-)symmetry in recollapsing quantum universe H. Zeh\u003cbr\u003e 40. Toward a quantum theory of classical reality W. 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