Time: Poincare Seminar 2010 by Bertrand Duplantier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The eleventh volume in proceedings from the Poincaré Seminars explores perspectives on time, specifically its directionality. The authors here explore the universe’s time-asymmetry through five articles. Contributing is Fields medalist Cédric Villani, theoretical physicists Thibault Damour and Christopher Jarzynski, experimentalist Christophe Salomon, and philosopher of science Huw Price. There is a concluding, one-page whimsical musing by Catherine de Mitry on a mythic Time in self-reflection...
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