Quantum Physics free of Folklore · Book 1
Records of the Future
Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time'
An inquiry into entropy, memory, prediction, and why time appears to have a preferred direction.
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About the book
The opening volume of Quantum Physics free of Folklore examines classical entropy, memory, and the arrow of time. It asks what a physical record actually is and what our ability to remember the past—but not the future—can tell us about reality.
Inside the book
The argument, in full.
Records of the Future begins where Galloping with Light ends: on the Moon in 1969, with Neil Armstrong confronting philosophical questions about time. From that scene, Felix develops a conceptual path through memory, probability, reversibility, entropy, determinism, and free will.
- 01
Is the distinction between past, present, and future only a persistent illusion?
- 02
What separates our psychological sense of time from objective physical time?
- 03
Can science establish whether time really flows in a preferred direction?
- 04
What does probability have to do with time?
- 05
Can we rationally reconcile determinism and free will?
- 06
What makes a physical process reversible or irreversible?
- 07
What would a universe of entirely reversible processes be like?
- 08
How are classical entropy and the arrow of time connected?
Edition represented
2013
- Author
- Felix Alba-Juez
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9781520427881
- Series
- Quantum Physics free of Folklore · Book 1
“The holistic view of Alba-Juez is among the major upsides of his work, but his willingness to go beyond what is considered popular physics is very refreshing. This is a thinking person’s book, and I suspect one need not even bother with the mathematics and still acquire a large degree of understanding.”
“Records of the Future, like the author’s previous works, submerges the reader—without false embellishments and distortions—into the core of the scientific arguments that have transformed our vision of the Universe.”
“Another crafted delivery describing fundamental concepts which we should all consider and don’t; a fantastic job!”
“It charms, it delights, it makes you think and wonder. It makes you ask to what extent abstract mathematics corresponds to the real world.”
“In an engaging conversational style, the author elucidates what the direction of time means. To take us to the arrow of time, he lays the foundations of classical entropy. I am eagerly awaiting the continuation of this series.”