دانلود کتاب Reversing the Arrow of Time

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Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
What Is in This Book
Acknowledgements
1 A Brief History of Time Reversal
1.1 On the A Series and the B Series
1.2 Ingenuity and Engines
1.3 Well, You Just Try to Reverse Them!
1.4 The Rise of Time Reversal
1.5 The Great Shock
1.6 Summary
2 What Time Reversal Means
2.1 The Definability Problem
2.2 Two Competing Camps
2.3 The Representation View
2.4 Temporal Structure
2.5 Time Translation Reversal
2.6 Constructing the Group Element
2.7 The Representation View of Time Reversal
2.8 Summary
3 Time Reversal in Physical Theory
3.1 State Space Representations
3.2 Newtonian Time Reversal
3.3 Analytic Mechanics
3.4 Quantum Theories
3.5 Summary
4 Philosophy of Symmetry
4.1 Representing Dynamical Symmetries
4.2 Invariance and Non-invariance
4.3 Direct Empirical Significance
4.4 The Symmetry-to-Reality Inference
4.5 The Spacetime–Dynamical Symmetry Relationship
4.6 Summary
5 Arrows That Misfire
5.1 Seeking the Arrow of Time Itself
5.2 The Radiation Arrow
5.3 The Arrow of Statistical Mechanics
5.4 Cosmological Arrows
5.5 Quantum Collapse
5.6 Causal Structure
5.7 Summary
6 There Is No Thermodynamic Arrow
6.1 Undirected Thermodynamics
6.2 Equilibrium Thermodynamics
6.3 The Clausius Inequality
6.4 Planck’s Argument
6.5 Concavity, Convexity, and Gibbs
6.6 Summary
7 Time Reversal Violation
7.1 Representing Time’s Arrow
7.2 Complete Enough Representations
7.3 The Discovery
7.4 The Price Critique
7.5 Summary
8 Representing CPT
8.1 Against Alternative Routes to Time Symmetry
8.2 On Feynman’s View
8.3 Local Symmetries beyond the Poincaré Group
8.4 C as a Spacetime Symmetry
8.5 Summary
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index