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  • Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics
    Jean Bricmont
    Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, what is its relation to fluxes of heat?One might ask similar questions about prob...
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    75,09 €

  • Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
    Jean Bricmont
    This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can b...
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    87,26 €

  • Quantum Sense and Nonsense
    Jean Bricmont
    Permeated by the author’s delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:  The issue of determinism. Does quantum mechanics signify the end of a deterministic word-view?  The role of the human subject or of the 'observer' in science. Since Copernicus, science has increasingly tended to deth...
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    47,76 €