Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow.

Lebowitz, J. L., & Spohn, H. (1993). Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow. Physics Today, 32-38.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1993

Link

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881363matched

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physics

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Primes

• Irreversibility
  • Modern accounts (Carroll, Lebowitz)

    This sourceReviews the modern statistical-mechanical interpretation of irreversibility: clarifies the role of initial conditions, coarse-graining, and the thermodynamic limit in resolving the paradoxes of microscopic reversibility and macroscopic irreversibility. Emphasizes that irreversibility is a feature of ensemble descriptions and macroscopic observables, not microscopic dynamics.

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