Probability in Physics
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 re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | The Frontiers Collection
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Physics and Chance
- Typicality and the Role of the Lebesgue Measure in Statistical Mechanics
- Typicality and Notions of Probability in Physics
- Deterministic Laws and Epistemic Chances
- Measures over Initial Conditions
- A New Approach to the Approach to Equilibrium
- Revising Statistical Mechanics - Probability, Typicality and Closure Time
- How Many Maxwell's Demons and Where?
- Locality and Determinism: the Odd Couple
- Why the Tsirelson Bound?
- Three Attempts at Two Axioms for Quantum Mechanics
- Generalized Probability Measures and the Framework of Effects
- Infinitely Challenging: Pitowsky's Subjective Interpretation and the Physics of Infinite Systems
- Bayesian Conditioning, the Reflection Principle, and Quantum Decoherence
- The World According to de Finetti
- Four and a Half Axioms for Finite-Dimensional Quantum Probability
- Probability in the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.-