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Chance in Physics

Author : J. Bricmont
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540449663
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Chance in Physics written by J. Bricmont and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Physics and Chance

Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558815
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Physics and Chance written by Lawrence Sklar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.

Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Author : David Bohm
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812210026
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics written by David Bohm and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.

Probability in Physics

Author : Yemima Ben-Menahem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642213286
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Probability in Physics written by Yemima Ben-Menahem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role and meaning of probability in physical theory, in particular in two of the most successful theories of our age, quantum physics and statistical mechanics? Laws once conceived as universal and deterministic, such as Newton‘s laws of motion, or the second law of thermodynamics, are replaced in these theories by inherently probabilistic laws. This collection of essays by some of the world‘s foremost experts presents an in-depth analysis of the meaning of probability in contemporary physics. Among the questions addressed are: How are probabilities defined? Are they objective or subjective? What is their explanatory value? What are the differences between quantum and classical probabilities? The result is an informative and thought-provoking book for the scientifically inquisitive.

Time and Chance

Author : David Z Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020138
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Time and Chance written by David Z Albert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Physics of Chance

Author : Charles Ruhla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Chance written by Charles Ruhla and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the ideas of indeterminacy that are central to much of modern physics and have overthrown the clockwork universe conceptions of earlier centuries.

Probabilities in Physics

Author : Claus Beisbart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191618209
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Probabilities in Physics written by Claus Beisbart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many results of modern physics—those of quantum mechanics, for instance—come in a probabilistic guise. But what do probabilistic statements in physics mean? Are probabilities matters of objective fact and part of the furniture of the world, as objectivists think? Or do they only express ignorance or belief, as Bayesians suggest? And how are probabilistic hypotheses justified and supported by empirical evidence? Finally, what does the probabilistic nature of physics imply for our understanding of the world? This volume is the first to provide a philosophical appraisal of probabilities in all of physics. Its main aim is to make sense of probabilistic statements as they occur in the various physical theories and models and to provide a plausible epistemology and metaphysics of probabilities. The essays collected here consider statistical physics, probabilistic modelling, and quantum mechanics, and critically assess the merits and disadvantages of objectivist and subjectivist views of probabilities in these fields. In particular, the Bayesian and Humean views of probabilities and the varieties of Boltzmann's typicality approach are examined. The contributions on quantum mechanics discuss the special character of quantum correlations, the justification of the famous Born Rule, and the role of probabilities in a quantum field theoretic framework. Finally, the connections between probabilities and foundational issues in physics are explored. The Reversibility Paradox, the notion of entropy, and the ontology of quantum mechanics are discussed. Other essays consider Humean supervenience and the question whether the physical world is deterministic.

The Almighty Chance

Author : I?Akov Borisovich Zel?dovich
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789971509170
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Almighty Chance written by I?Akov Borisovich Zel?dovich and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1990 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the importance of random phenomena occurring in nature. Cases are selected in which randomness is most important or crucial, such as Brownian motion, certain reactions in Physical Chemistry and Biology, and intermittency in magnetic field generation by turbulent fluid motion, etc. Due to ?almighty chance? the structures can originate from chaos even in linear problems. This idea is complementary as well as competes with a basic concept of synergetics where structures appear mainly due to the pan-linear nature of phenomena. This book takes a new look at the problem of structure formation in random media, qualitative physical representation of modern conceptions, intermittency, fractals, percolation and many examples from different fields of science.

The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics

Author : Y. M. Guttmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521621283
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics written by Y. M. Guttmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A most systematic study of how to interpret probabilistic assertions in the context of statistical mechanics.

Aristotle's Physics

Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703146X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Physics written by Mariska Leunissen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.

The Challenge of Chance

Author : Klaas Landsman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319263005
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Chance written by Klaas Landsman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.

Quantum Chance

Author : Nicolas Gisin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319054732
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Chance written by Nicolas Gisin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise exposition does not avoid the deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.

Ten Great Ideas about Chance

Author : Persi Diaconis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196397
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Ten Great Ideas about Chance written by Persi Diaconis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.

Creating Modern Probability

Author : Jan von Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521597357
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Creating Modern Probability written by Jan von Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author charts the history and development of modern probability theory.

Chance and Chaos

Author : David Ruelle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121395X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Chaos written by David Ruelle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this question for a general audience, Ruelle writes in the best French tradition: he has produced an authoritative and elegant book--a model of clarity, succinctness, and a humor bordering at times on the sardonic.

After Physics

Author : David Z Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674731263
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book After Physics written by David Z Albert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative of “befores” and “afters.”

Chance in the World

Author : Carl Hoefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019090741X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Chance in the World written by Carl Hoefer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether something happens randomly, by chance; or from a series of events.