- Hardcover: 292 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (1 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520047648
- ISBN-13: 978-0520047648
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The final work of a distinguished physicist, this remarkable volume examines the emotive significance of time, the time order of mechanics, the time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, the time direction of macrostatistics, and the time of quantum physics. Coherent discussions include
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Laymen Beware
25 July 2000
Format:Paperback
If you didn't know, this book is hard. I am a first year engineering student, and I felt lost through most of it. I gather it was intended for full-fledged physicists, but I was intrigued to read it anyway because of a philosophical thread running through the work. But beware--get ready for some Immanuel Kant and Einstein in only the introduction. This book is as much about the physics of time as the philosophy concerning subjectivity of time. Even though I didn't understand a lot of the probability or almost any of the quantum mechanics math, I still got some pleasure out of some of the more bizzare conclusions of the book. Did you know that for an isolated system (one not interacting with any others), time can't be said to have any direction? Furthermore, time as we know it is just a statistic. Another interesting fact is that on the quantum mechanical level, there is no such thing as time! If these things intrigue you (and you know what a double Riemann sum is) go for this book. Otherwise, be very afraid...
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This is a great book
24 Mar 2001
Format:Paperback
It is a beautiful but exterememly difficult book. It covers the concept of time and direction of time from the beginning up to current thinking. Author, being one of the founding fathers of philosophical quantum theory first introduces a good understanding of Thermodaynamics and Statiastical Physics and defines the order of events to lead into statistical definition of arrow of time. A lot of difficult concepts from Classsical Statistical Physics, Probability Theory, Relativity and Mathematical Logic as well as a good understanding of Quantum Physics is assumed to be in the bag of the reader, after all this book is not a Popular Science book. Although the author claims that knowledge of derivations of the formulas used are not critical to understand this study yet time to time the language and logic becames exteremely difficult. This is a must read book in this subject, may be many times or time and time over after increasing the understanding in other subjects that only tools in this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The Direction of Time
31 May 2007
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I can't believe that everyone didn't rate this with 5 stars!
I had to write this because this was one of those really great books that changed my understanding of something that seems so basic, so obvious, time.
Well well worth the 5 bucks.
I had to write this because this was one of those really great books that changed my understanding of something that seems so basic, so obvious, time.
Well well worth the 5 bucks.
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