The Direction of Time

The final work of a distinguished physicist, this remarkable volume examines the emotive significance of time, the time order of mechanics, the time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, the time direction of macrostatistics, and the time of quantum physics. Coherent discussions include accounts of analytic methods of scientific philosophy in the investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, and causality. "[Reichenbach's] best by a good deal."Physics Today.1971 edition.

Introduction
The Emotive Significance of Time	p. 1
The Time Order of Mechanics
The Qualitative Properties of Time	p. 19
The Causal Theory of Time	p. 24
Causality in Classical Physics	p. 27
The Causal Definition of Time Order	p. 32
Intervention	p. 43
The Time Direction of Thermodynamics and Microstatistics
Report on the Second Law of Thermodynamics	p. 49
The Statistical Definition of Entropy	p. 56
Extension of Statistics to Different Energy Levels	p. 65
A Deterministic Interpretation of Thermodynamical Statistics	p. 72
Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Classical Physics	p. 82
The Probability Lattice	p. 96
The Reversibility Objection	p. 108
The Time Direction of the Space Ensemble	p. 117
The Sectional Nature of Time Direction	p. 125
The Hypothesis of the Branch Structure	p. 135
The Time Direction of Macrostatistics
Macroarrangements and Macroentropy	p. 145
Cause and Effect: Producing and Recording	p. 149
The Principle of the Common Cause	p. 157
Entropy and Information	p. 167
The Time Direction of Information and the Theory of Registering Instruments	p. 178
A Completely Macrostatistical Definition of Time Direction	p. 186
The Mark Principle and Causal Relevance	p. 197
The Time of Quantum Physics
The Statistical Reversibility of the Elementary Processes of Quantum Mechanics	p. 207
The Indeterminism of Quantum Mechanics	p. 211
The Genidentity of Quantum Particles	p. 224
The Entropy Concept of Quantum Statistics	p. 236
Extension of Quantum Statistics to Different Energy Levels	p. 249
Particles Vanishing into Nonexistence	p. 259
Particles Traveling Backward in Time	p. 262
Appendix	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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