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Time and Chance
David Z. Albert
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Description for Time and Chance
Paperback. This study is an attempt to get to the root of the tension between the best scientific pictures of the physical structure of the world and the everyday, empirical experience of it. This book examines the problem of the direction of time - the notion that whatever can happen, can happen backwards. Num Pages: 192 pages, 29 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PHH; PHS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the ... Read more
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
288g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674011328
SKU
V9780674011328
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About David Z. Albert
David Z Albert is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Reviews for Time and Chance
The foundations of statistical mechanisms are often presented in physics textbooks in a rather obscure and confused way. By challenging common ways of thinking about this subject, Time and Chance can do quite a lot to improve this situation.
Jean Bricmont Science 20010713
Jean Bricmont Science 20010713