Название: The Mystery of Time: Asymmetry of Time and Irreversibility in the Natural Processes
Автор: A.L. Kuzemsky
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 484
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.0 MB

The book focuses on the study of the temporal behavior of complex many-particle systems. The phenomenon of time and its role in the temporal evolution of complex systems is a remaining mystery. The book presents the necessity of the interdisciplinary point of view regarding on the phenomenon of time. The aim of the present study is to summarize and formulate in a concise but clear form the trends and approaches to the concept of time from a broad interdisciplinary perspective exposing tersely the complementary approaches and theories of time in the context of thermodynamics, statistical physics, cosmology, theory of information, biology and biophysics, including the problem of time and aging. Various approaches to the problem show that time is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary and multifaceted underlying notion which plays an extremely important role in various natural complex processes.

Contents:

The Enigma of Time
The Physics of Time
Time in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
The Entropy Concept
Methods of Statistical Mechanics
The Exotic Thermodynamic States
Entropy: Development and Generalization
Irreversibility and Natural Processes
Temporal Evolution and Arrow of Time
The Physics of Non-equilibrium Processes
Life, Complexity and Time
Epilogue

Readership: Academic, physicists, chemists, biologists, historian of sciences, general public.