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The Direction of Time
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Author/Editor: Hans Reichenbach
ISBN 10:0486409260
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Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, and time of quantum physics. Analytic methods of scientific philosophy in investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, t...  read more
 


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Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, and time of quantum physics. Analytic methods of scientific philosophy in investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, causality. 1971 edition.
Reprint of the University of California Press, Berkeley, 1956 edition.

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486409260
ISBN 13: 9780486409269
Author/Editor: Hans Reichenbach
Format: Book
Page Count: 292
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: July 1999
Table of Contents: Click here to view the Table of Contents

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