The Direction of Time
Dover Publications (1956)
Abstract
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 accounts of analytic methods of scientific philosophy in the investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, and causality. "[Reichenbach’s] best by a good deal."—Physics Today. 1971 ed.Reprint years
1991, 1999
Call number
QC6.4.C3.R45 1999
ISBN(s)
0520074149 9780520074149 0486409260 0486439372 0520047648
DOI
10.2307/2216858
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