Time and chance
irreversibilitymacroscopic processesmicroscopic levelpast-hypothesisquantum measurementreversibilitystatistical mechanicsthermodynamicstime-reversal invariance
Physics (00A79) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-01) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)
The problem of paradoxical situation between the irreversibility in Nature, or of macroscopic processes on the one side and the reversibility of processes on a microscopic level described by reversible laws of motion on the other side, is still one of big challenges for today's science. The fundamental role in this game is played by time. In this connection one often speaks about the so called arrow of time. Time also appears in the title of the book under review but together with another difficult to comprehend notion, namely chance. So one can say the main trouble which the author is presenting to solve is about the direction of time. But this is nothing but the celebrated problem of the second law of thermodynamics, too. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn reviewing the book it is important to begin with the statement that the author is professor of philosophy. That seems cardinal for reading the book itself. Well, it does not mean, of course at least in this case that the author is not well acquainted with the physical basics.
- Forces on fields
- Typicality, irreversibility and the status of macroscopic laws
- Analysis of Wallace's proof of the Born rule in Everettian quantum mechanics. II: Concepts and axioms
- The implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihoods in cosmology
- Dynamical reduction models
- Time and risk
- An alternative interpretation of statistical mechanics
- A statistical analysis of luck
- Mixing, tunnelling and the direction of time in the context of Reichenbach's principles
- On some reasons why the time reversal operator could be unitary
- Information vs. entropy vs. probability
- Interpretive analogies between quantum and statistical mechanics
- On the Galilean invariance of the Pilot-Wave theory
- Spontaneous collapse theories and temporal primitivism about time's direction
- Understanding time reversal in quantum mechanics: a new derivation
- The open past in an indeterministic physics
- Entanglement, complexity, and causal asymmetry in quantum theories
- Histories, dynamical laws, and initial conditions \(-\) invariance under time-reversibility and its failure in Markov processes, with application to the second law of thermodynamics and the past hypothesis
- In praise of Clausius entropy: reassessing the foundations of Boltzmannian statistical mechanics
- Finely tuned models sacrifice explanatory depth
- Reconceptualising equilibrium in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and characterising its existence
- Prospects for a new account of time reversal
- Roads to the past: how to go and \textit{not} to go backward in time in quantum theories
- Electromagnetism as quantum physics
- Typical worlds
- The reversibility objection against the second law of thermodynamics viewed, and avoided, from a logical point of view
- Quantum mechanics, time and ontology
- Time-reversal, irreversibility and arrow of time in quantum mechanics
- No interpretation of probability
- A subjectivist's guide to deterministic chance
- Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium
- Quantum states for primitive ontologists. A case study
- The mathematics of chance
- Time and chance: a statistical hendiadys
- On \(A\)- and \(B\)-theoretic elements of branching spacetimes
- Deterministic probability: Neither chance nor credence
- Waiting for Landauer
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1538105 (Why is no real title available?)
- A connection between Minkowski and Galilean space-times in quantum mechanics
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1399997 (Why is no real title available?)
- On probabilities in biology and physics
- The best Humean system for statistical mechanics
- Probability and typicality in deterministic physics
- Was there an ice cube there or am I just remembering it?: Does the reversibility argument really imply scepticism about records?
- Pitowsky’s Epistemic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem
- Bohmian dispositions
- How do causes depend on us? The many faces of perspectivalism
- The PBR theorem: Whose side is it on?
- Time's Arrow and Irreversibility in Time‐Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics
- Physics and causation
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5218469 (Why is no real title available?)
- A tale of two arrows
- Emergence of time
- Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
- Physical time and human time
- Is the universe in a mixed state?
- Modeling the past hypothesis: a mechanical cosmology
- The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium
- The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics
- On the time reversal invariance of classical electromagnetic theory
- The problem of ontology for spontaneous collapse theories
- Quantum decoherence and the approach to equilibrium. II
- On the explanation for quantum statistics
- The ``past hypothesis: not even false
- Causal time asymmetry
- Does quantum electrodynamics have an arrow of time?
- The problem of time's arrow historico-critically reexamined
- Experimental metaphysics\(_2\): the double standard in the quantum-information approach to the foundations of quantum theory
- What could be objective about probabilities?
- Laws and chances in statistical mechanics
- Is there a reversibility paradox? Recentering the debate on the thermodynamic time arrow
- The nature of time
- New approximations of external acoustic-structural interactions: derivation and evaluation
- From time asymmetry to quantum entanglement: the Humean unification
- Boltzmann's H-theorem, its discontents, and the birth of statistical mechanics
- An empirical approach to symmetry and probability
- GRW as an ontology of dispositions
- A stochastic model of mathematics and science
- Uniform probability distribution over all density matrices
- Comparative microscopic study of entropies and their production
- The metaphysical underdetermination of time-reversal invariance
- Reducing thermodynamics to Boltzmannian statistical mechanics: the case of macro values
- Euclidean spacetime functionalism
- In defense of causal eliminativism
- How to explain the direction of time
- A Bayesian analysis of self-undermining arguments in physics
- Remarks on the direction of time in quantum mechanics
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking and chance in a classical world
- Foundations of statistical mechanics -- two approaches
- Confession of a causal decision theorist
- Taxonomy for physics beyond quantum mechanics
- A justification of the probabilistic explanation of the entropy principle
- Three myths about time reversal in quantum theory
- Rethinking Boltzmannian equilibrium
- Quantum mechanics as classical physics
- Can we explain thermodynamics by quantum decoherence?
- Are instantaneous velocities real and really instantaneous?: An argument for the affirmative
- Time reversal operations, representations of the Lorentz group, and the direction of time
- The levels of scientific disciplines
- Against symmetry fundamentalism
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