The Direction of Time
6:10pm–8:00pm
FAYERWEATHER FAY 301M
Morningside
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Description
A survey of the various attempts to reconcile the macroscopic directionality of time with the time-reversibility of the fundamental laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy, statistical mechanics, cosmological problems, the problems of memory, the possibility of multiple time direction
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Flat map — motion reduced
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- 3 credits
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