Is there a reversibility paradox? Recentering the debate on the thermodynamic time arrow

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.05.002zbMATH Open1223.82029OpenAlexW2026502780MaRDI QIDQ643499FDOQ643499

Authors Alon Drory

Publication date 31 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.2008.05.002

zbMATH Keywords

entropysecond law of thermodynamicsirreversibilityBoltzmannpast hypothesisreversibility objectiontime arrowtime asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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