Chance in physics : foundations and perspectives / J. Bricmont [and others] (eds.)
This selection of reviews and papers is intended to stimulate renewed reflection on the fundamental and practical aspects of probability in physics. While putting emphasis on conceptual aspects in the foundations of statistical and quantum mechanics, the book deals with the philosophy of probability...
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics ;
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Table of Contents:
- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics
- Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics
- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann's Equation
- The Direction of Time
- How to Implement Boltzmann's Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World?- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon
- Bohmian Mechanics
- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation
- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Space--Time and Probability
- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe
- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program
- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements
- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment
- Does Quantum Chaos Exist?- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
- Einstein's Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems.