The Direction of Time Contributor(s): Reichenbach, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486409260 ISBN-13: 9780486409269 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, and time of quantum physics. Analytic methods of scientific philosophy in investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, causality. 1971 edition. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Time - Science | Physics - General |
Dewey: 530 |
LCCN: 99049141 |
Series: Dover Books on Physics |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.34" W x 8.48" (0.68 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ever a source of philosophical conjecture and debate, the concept of time represents the beating heart of physics. This final work by the distinguished physicist Hans Reichenbach represents the culmination and integration of a lifetime's philosophical contributions and inquiries into the analysis of time. The result is an outstanding overview of such qualitative, or topological, attributes of time as order and direction. |