Huw Price

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point

New Directions for the Physics of Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this exciting and accessible book, Australian philosopher Huw Price throws new light on these great mysteries and presents an innovative and controversial view of time and contemporary physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780195117981
• ISBN-10: 0195117980
• Artikelnr.: 21708743

Autorenporträt

Huw Price is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Facts and the Function of Truth (1988) and a wide range of articles in leading journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

* The View from Nowhen
More Apt to Be Lost than Got: The Lessons of the Second Law
New light on The Arrow of Radiation
Arrows and Error in Contemporary Cosmology
Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics
In Search of the Third Arrow
Convention Objectified and the Past Unlocked
Einstein's Issue: The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory
The Case for Advanced Action
Overview.