Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
by Huw Price · first published 1996
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Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. M
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For an interesting book on the subject of time in the philosophy of physics, see Huw Price's Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point. It does a fairly good job of laying out what the problems are. * http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html
on “Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion” ↗I really enjoyed Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, by Huw Price.
on “Prof. Sussman's Reading List” ↗See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Schulman and the book Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point by Huw Price
on “The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (2021)” ↗> Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point This looks something like the Transactional Interpretation of QM, which made use of advanced as well as retarded waves to explain things like EPR correlations. I think it's fair to say this is still…
on “The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (2021)” ↗