The Arrow of Time
from local systems to the whole universe
$432.28
- Hardcover
326 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2025
Summary
The Unfolding Enigma: Exploring the Arrow of Time
The ‘arrow of time,’ a concept that illustrates time’s one-way direction, links itself to physical asymmetries across thermodynamics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and field theories. Despite its prevalence, the arrow of time’s fundamental nature continues to baffle physicists and philosophers, influencing theories and disciplines.
This volume gathers insights from the international colloquium ‘The Arrow of Time: From Local S…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009581578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009581570 |
| Author: | Cristian López, Olimpia Lombardi |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 326 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
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About The Author
Cristian López
Cristian López is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an Assistant Researcher at CONICET, Argentina. He has a broad research background spanning philosophy of physics, metaphysics of science, and political philosophy. He has authored numerous articles on the arrow of time, symmetries and quantum mechanics, and co-edited two books with Olimpia Lombardi for Cambridge University Press: What is Quantum Information? (2017) and Quantum Worlds (2019).
Olimpia Lombardi is a Superior Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Corresponding Member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics and a member of the Foundational Questions Institute. Lombardi has authored numerous articles in the philosophy of physics and chemistry, along with several books. Among her publications are two co-edited volumes with Cristian López for Cambridge University Press: What is Quantum Information? (2017) and Quantum Worlds (2019).
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