Microscopic irreversibility
First, I will recount the substance of several important conversations I had with Ilya Prigogine over the years. There is no doubt in my mind that Professor Prigogine firmly believed in the underlying stochasticity of the universe. Second, I will summarize my curiosity about the principle of detaile...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1026022604310034 |
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| Summary: | First, I will recount the substance of several important
conversations I had with Ilya Prigogine over the years. There is
no doubt in my mind that Professor Prigogine firmly believed in
the underlying stochasticity of the universe. Second, I will
summarize my curiosity about the principle of detailed balance.
In my opinion, so far it has always been put in by hand. Third, I
will advance my own theory of microscopic irreversibility, that
is, irreversibility at the quantum level. This involves new
concepts of probability preference and probability violation. A
manifestation of this irreversibility may be seen during emission
of bound-free photons during field-matter interactions. Entropy
increase is tied to radiation increase, and the notion of heat
bath becomes light bath. |
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| ISSN: | 1026-0226 1607-887X |