TitleTime's arrows today : recent physical and philosophical work on the direction of time / edited by Steven F. Savitt
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998, c1995
Descript xiii, 330 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Cosmology and time's arrow -- Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics / William Unruh -- Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard / Huw Price -- Quantum theory and time's arrow -- Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem / Anthony Leggett -- Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements / Philip Stamp -- Time flow, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics / Storrs McCall -- Stochastically branching spacetime topology / Roy Douglas -- Thermodynamics and time's arrow -- The elusive object of desire: in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the Second Law -- Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world / Lawrence Sklar -- When and why does entropy increase? / Martin Barrett & Elliott Sober -- Time travel and time's arrow -- Closed causal chains / Paul Horwich -- Recent work on time travel / John Earman


SUBJECT

  1. Time -- Philosophy -- Congresses
  2. Space and time -- Congresses

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