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Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time

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Paperback | 18 August 1997

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While it seems manifest in our experience that time flows - from the past to the present moment and into the future, there are a number of philosophical and physical objections to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In the quest to make sense of this conundrum philosophers and physicists confront fascinating and irresistible questions such as: Can effects precede causes? Can one travel in time? Can the expansion of the universe or the process of measurement in quantum mechanics provide a direction of time? In this book eleven eminent scholars, standing at the boundary between physics and philosophy, attempt to answer these questions in an entertaining yet rigorous way. For example, William Unruh's chapter is one of the first non-technical essays by this important cosmologist and Huw Price discusses critically the exciting cosmological views of Hawking and Penrose. Philip Stamp and Anthony Leggett discuss macroscopic quantum phenomena, a subject which has not been discussed much outside the specialist literature. John Earman's paper on time travel is likely to become one of the landmarks in the literature. The book will be enjoyed by anyone of a speculative turn of mind fascinated by the puzzles of time.

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'This collection of papers is an exemplary case of the beneficial effects of the interaction of philosophers and scientists in a non-polistical setting. It is also the state of the art on the problem of time's arrow ... Anyone working on the problem of the direction of time or the related issues discussed in the various chapters would be well advised to delve into it.' John Collier, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 'I heartily recommend this collection to anyone, philosopher or scientist interested in the direction of time. Many of the papers make significant contributions to the field, and I found almost all of them quite interesting, I am confident this book will emerge as a standard text in the philosophy of time.' Craig Callender, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Relativity Physics Astronomy, Space & Time Time & Chronology Philosophy Metaphysics & Ontology

Introduction
Cosmology and Time's Arrow
Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics
Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard
Quantum Theory and Time's Arrow
Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem
Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements
Time flows, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics
Stochastically branching spacetime topology
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
When and why does entropy increase?
Time Travel and Time's Arrow
Closed causal chains
Recent work on time travel
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