The problem of time's arrow historico-critically reexamined

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.11.005zbMath1223.82032MaRDI QIDQ643080

Roberto Torretti

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.11.005

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; direction of time; Boltzmann entropy; big bang and entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82C03: Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics

82-03: History of statistical mechanics

01A05: General histories, source books

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