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Time

Part of the Progress in Mathematical Physics Book Series (volume 63)

Editors: Duplantier, Bertrand

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0359-5

ISBN: 978-3-0348-0358-8

Publisher: Springer Basel - Springer Journals

Feb 14, 2012

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Chapter 1Time and Relativity

Damour, Thibault

Pages: 1 –17

[We discuss the interplay between the apparent fundamental irreversibility of Time (“Second Law”) and Einstein’s views about Space, Time and Matter. A particular attention is given to Boltzmann’s 1897 entropic (and anthropic) fluctuation argument, leading to the idea that the “flow of time”is an...
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Chapter 2(Ir)reversibility and Entropy

Villani, Cédric

Pages: 19 –79

[In this text, I evoke the issue of time in classical statistical physics, insisting on the problem of time’s arrow and irreversibility. Boltzmann’s entropy and the H Theorem play a key part, as well as the damping without information loss imagined by Landau. Some paradoxes of various fame are...
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Chapter 3(Ir)réversibilité et entropie

Villani, Cédric

Pages: 81 –143

[Dans ce texte j’évoque la question du temps en physique statistique classique, en insistant sur le probl`eme de l’écoulement du temps et de l’irréversibilité. L’entropie de Boltzmann et le Théor`eme H occupent une place de choix, ainsi que l’amortissement sans perte d’information deviné par...
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Chapter 4Equalities and Inequalities: Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

Jarzynski, Christopher

Pages: 145 –172

[The reason we never observe violations of the second law of thermodynamics is a matter of statistics: When very many degrees of freedom are involved, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against the possibility of seeing significant deviations away from the mean behavior. As we turn our attention...
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Chapter 5Time Measurement in the XXIst Century

Salomon, Christophe

Pages: 173 –186

[After a brief historical review on the evolution of man-made clocks, we describe the principle and performances of modern atomic clocks. These clocks are based on transitions between long–lived states of laser cooled atoms and reach an error of about one picosecond per day, i.e., 1 second over 3...
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Chapter 6Time’s Arrow and Eddington’s Challenge

Price, Huw

Pages: 187 –215

[When Sir Arthur Eddington died in 1944, TIME magazine noted that “one of mankind’s most reassuring cosmic thinkers”h ad passed away: “Sir Arthur,”TI ME said, had “discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists.”O ne of Eddington’s favorite cosmic subjects was...

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