Chance in physics : foundations and perspectives /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
2001
Berlin ; New York : [2001], ©2001 Berlin ; New York : c2001 Berlin ; New York : ©2001 Berlin ; New York : 2001 |
| Series: | Lecture notes in physics
v. 574. Lecture notes in physics ; 574 Lecture notes in physics ; v. 574 |
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Table of Contents:
- Bayes, Boltzmann and Bohm: Probabilities in Physics / Jean Bricmont
- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics / Carlo Cercignani
- Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics / Sheldon Goldstein
- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann Equation / Herbert Spohn
- The Direction of Time / Oliver Penrose
- How to Implement Boltzmann's Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World? / Michael K.-H. Kiessling
- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon / Stephen L. Adler
- Bohmian Mechanics / Detlef Durr
- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation / Alberto Rimini
- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Roland Omnes
- Space Time and Probability / Simon W. Saunders
- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe / Antony Valentini
- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program / Gian Carlo Ghirardi
- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements / Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment / Jose Acacio de Barros and Patrick Suppes
- Classical Versus Quantum Probabilities / Enrico G. Beltrametti
- Does Quantum Chaos Exist? / Andreas Knauf
- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium / Stefano Ruffo
- Einstein's Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems / Andrea Carati and Luigi Galgani
- What Interpretation for Probability in Physics? / Maria Carla Galavotti
- Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability / Peter J. Clark
- Interpreting Probabilities: What's Interference Got to Do with It? / Tim Maudlin