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1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann -- Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? / Mathias Frisch -- The past hypothesis meets gravity / Craig Callender -- Quantum gravity and the arrow of time / Claus Kiefer -- The natural-range conception of probability / Jacob Rosenthal -- Probability in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics / Roman Frigg -- Humean metaphysics versus a metaphysics of powers / Michael Esfeld -- The crystallization of Clausius's phenomenological thermodynamics / C. Ulises Moulines -- Reduction and renormalization / Robert W. Batterman -- Irreversibility in stochastic dynamis / Jos Uffink. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Statistical mechanics.
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Statistical mechanics. |
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Statistical mechanics -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Ernst, Gerhard, 1971-
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Hüttemann, Andreas.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Time, chance and reduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521884013 (DLC) 2010293279 (OCoLC)437083113 |
ISBN |
9780511770104 (electronic book) |
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0511770103 (electronic book) |
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051176703X (electronic book) |
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9780511767036 (electronic book) |
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9780521884013 (hardback) |
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0521884012 (hardback) |
Standard No. |
9786612651724 |
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