Chance in physics

Jean Bricmont, D Dürr, M.C Gavalotti, Giancarlo Ghirardi, Francesco Petruccione, N Zanghi

276 pages, parution le 15/07/2001

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This selection of reviews and papers is intended to stimulate renewed reflection on the fundamental and practical aspects of probability in physics. While putting emphasis on conceptual aspects in the foundations of statistical and quantum mechanics, the book deals with the philosophy of probability in its interrelation with mathematics and physics in general. Addressing graduate students and researchers in physics and mathematics togehter with philosophers of science, the contributions avoid cumbersome technicalities in order to make the book worthwhile reading for nonspecialists and specialists alike.

Keywords: chance, probability, statistical mechanics

Contents: The Rise of Statistical Mechanics.- Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics.- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann's Equation.- The Direction of Time.- How to Implement Boltzmann's Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World?- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon.- Bohmian Mechanics.- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation.- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- Space--Time and Probability.- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe.- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program.- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements.- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment.- Does Quantum Chaos Exist?- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium.- Einstein's Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems.

L'auteur - Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont est professeur de physique théorique à l'Université de Louvain et président de l'Association française pour l'information scientifique. Il a notamment publié avec Alan Sokal Les Impostures intellectuelles.

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L'auteur - Francesco Petruccione

Francesco Petruccione, Fakultaet fuer Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg and Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Jean Bricmont, D Dürr, M.C Gavalotti, Giancarlo Ghirardi, Francesco Petruccione, N Zanghi
Parution	15/07/2001
Nb. de pages	276
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	549g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540420569