Direction Of Time
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The Direction Of Time
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Author : Hans Reichenbach
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1991
The Direction Of Time written by Hans Reichenbach and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
Internationally known for his work in the theory of probability, symbolic logic, analysis of space and time, and philosophical problems of quantum physics, Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) was one of the twentieth century's most incisive philosophers of science. In this, his last book, first published in 1956, he brought all his previous research and insight to bear on the most intractable and intriguing problem in physics: the elusive nature of time. This far-sighted work of philosophy illuminates the metaphysical questions with which contemporary researchers in cosmology and particle physics must contend. Arguing as he did throughout his career that developments in scientific knowledge must influence philosophy, Reichenbach shows how completely the Kantian a priori--and many of our most basic intuitions about the structure of space and time--are undermined by twentieth-century physics. He shows how the philosophical understanding of time is necessary to understanding contemporary problems of cosmology. This new edition of The Direction of Time, published in the year of Reichenbach's centennial, includes an introduction by Hilary Putnam, one of Reichenbach's most eminent students, describing the metaphysical assumptions and arguments embedded in Reichenbach's philosophy, and their importance for the development of contemporary philosophy pf science.
From Eternity To Here
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Author : Sean Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-01-07
From Eternity To Here written by Sean Carroll and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-07 with Science categories.
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can’t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today’s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself—a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child’s play. Carroll’s scenario is not only elegant, it’s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net. From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It’s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time. Watch a Video
The Direction Of Time
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Author : Hans Reichenbach
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1991
The Direction Of Time written by Hans Reichenbach and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Causality (Physics) categories.
The Order Of Time
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Author : Carlo Rovelli
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-05-08
The Order Of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Science categories.
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Time And Chance
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Author : David Z Albert
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-28
Time And Chance written by David Z Albert and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-28 with Science categories.
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students.
Classical And Modern Direction Of Arrival Estimation
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Author : T. Engin Tuncer
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2009-07-10
Classical And Modern Direction Of Arrival Estimation written by T. Engin Tuncer and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Classical and Modern Direction of Arrival Estimation contains both theory and practice of direction finding by the leading researchers in the field. This unique blend of techniques used in commercial DF systems and state-of-the art super-resolution methods is a valuable source of information for both practicing engineers and researchers. Key topics covered are: - Classical methods of direction finding - Practical DF methods used in commercial systems - Calibration in antenna arrays - Array mapping, fast algorithms and wideband processing - Spatial time-frequency distributions for DOA estimation - DOA estimation in threshold region - Higher order statistics for DOA estimation - Localization in sensor networks and direct position estimation - Brings together in one book classical and modern DOA techniques, showing the connections between them - Contains contributions from the leading people in the field - Gives a concise and easy- to- read introduction to the classical techniques - Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of key super-resolution techniques - Includes applications to sensor networks
The Janus Point
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Author : Julian Barbour
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-12-03
The Janus Point written by Julian Barbour and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-03 with Science categories.
What is time? The Janus Point offers a ground-breaking solution to one of the greatest mysteries in physics. For over a century, the greatest minds have sought to understand why time seems to flow in one direction, ever forward. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour offers a radically new answer: it doesn't. At the heart of this book, Barbour provides a new vision of the Big Bang - the Janus Point - from which time flows in two directions, its currents driven by the expansion of the universe and the growth of order in the galaxies, planets and life itself. What emerges is not just a revolutionary new theory of time, but a hopeful argument about the destiny of our universe. 'Both a work of literature and a masterpiece of scientific thought' Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble with Physics 'Profound...original...accessible to anyone who has pondered the mysteries of space and time' Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal 'Takes on fundamental questions, offering a new perspective on how the Universe started and where it may be headed' Science Magazine
Cycles Of Time
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Author : Roger Penrose
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-09-06
Cycles Of Time written by Roger Penrose and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-06 with Science categories.
From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (New York Journal of Books). Penrose presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat death or ultimate entropy—can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new “Big Bang.” He details the basic principles beneath our universe, explaining various standard and non-standard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, the paramount significance of black holes, and other basic building blocks of contemporary physics. Intellectually thrilling and widely accessible, Cycles of Time is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.
Thermodynamics In The Quantum Regime
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Author : Felix Binder
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-11
Thermodynamics In The Quantum Regime written by Felix Binder and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-11 with Science categories.
Quantum Thermodynamics is a novel research field which explores the emergence of thermodynamics from quantum theory and addresses thermodynamic phenomena which appear in finite-size, non-equilibrium and finite-time contexts. Blending together elements from open quantum systems, statistical mechanics, quantum many-body physics, and quantum information theory, it pinpoints thermodynamic advantages and barriers emerging from genuinely quantum properties such as quantum coherence and correlations. Owing to recent experimental efforts, the field is moving quickly towards practical applications, such as nano-scale heat devices, or thermodynamically optimised protocols for emergent quantum technologies. Starting from the basics, the present volume reviews some of the most recent developments, as well as some of the most important open problems in quantum thermodynamics. The self-contained chapters provide concise and topical introductions to researchers who are new to the field. Experts will find them useful as a reference for the current state-of-the-art. In six sections the book covers topics such as quantum heat engines and refrigerators, fluctuation theorems, the emergence of thermodynamic equilibrium, thermodynamics of strongly coupled systems, as well as various information theoretic approaches including Landauer's principle and thermal operations. It concludes with a section dedicated to recent quantum thermodynamics experiments and experimental prospects on a variety of platforms ranging from cold atoms to photonic systems, and NV centres.
Finding Seekers
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Author : Bruce Tallman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Finding Seekers written by Bruce Tallman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Spiritual direction categories.
Dr. Tallman has presented this material in training sessions for spiritual directors across North America. It is becoming "required reading" in many programs because it is full of practical, down-to-earth insights on every aspect of developing a spiritual direction practice.