Time's arrows today : recent physical and philosophical work on the direction of time / edited by Steven F. Savitt.
While experience tells us that time flows from the past to the present and into the future, a number of philosophical and physical objections exist to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In an attempt to make sense of this conundrum, philosophers and physicists are forced to confront fascinating...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Cosmology and time's arrow. Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics / William Unruh
- Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard / Huw Price
- Part II. Quantum theory and time's arrow. Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem / Anthony Leggett
- Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements / Philip Stamp
- Time flow, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics / Storrs McCall
- Stochastically branching spacetime topology / Roy Douglas
- Part III. Thermodynamics and time's arrow. The elusive object of desire : in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the Second Law ; Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world / Lawrence Sklar
- When and why does entropy increase? / Martin Barrett & Elliott Sober
- Part IV. Time travel and time's arrow. Closed causal chains / Paul Horwich
- Recent work on time travel / John Earman.