Time and Opportunity

Author: (USA) Albert / Wang Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book attempts to delve deeply into the sharp and persistent tension between a scientific description of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday experiential understanding of the world. The direction of time is a problem that deeply troubles us. This situation indicates that it is almost a conclusion derived from every one of these fundamental scientific descriptions—yet it is highly inconsistent with our common sense—and everything that can happen can also naturally occur in reverse. "Albert perfects a style of fundamental analysis that is uniquely his own; this analysis is surgically precise and shows no mercy to pretensions. The foundations of thermodynamics are a topic that has been exhausted by a mountain of deadwood, a fire that will continue to burn endlessly." The characteristic feature of Albert's work has always been its keen, pertinent, and exceptionally clear explanations. This book will make a valuable contribution to the literature on philosophical issues in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, a field that has been weak in its foundations but is now developing in the way it should.