Time's Arrows and Quantum Measurement

by Lawrence S. Schulman

Book Overview

This book is an introduction to the arrow of time in thermodynamics and cosmology, and develops a new quantum measurement theory in which the foregoing concepts play an essential role. The first chapter is an overview and route map and is followed by an exposition of irreversibility, the expansion of the universe and other arrows of time. The author examines the thesis that the thermodynamic arrow follows the cosmological one, and in doing so extends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521567750
• ISBN13: 9780521567756
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.3"