begriffe:irreversibilitaet
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Irreversibilität
Disziplinäre Begriffe
Material
A. Primärmaterial
B. Sekundärmaterial
Begriffsgeschichtliche Arbeiten
Sonstige Literatur
- Brush, Stephen G.: Irreversibility and Indeterminism: Fourier to Heisenberg. Journal fo History of Ideas 37, 1976, S. 603-630.
| Abstract: By 1800, the cyclic "Newtonian clockwork universe," rejected by Newton himself, was being challenged by research on the cooling of the Earth. J. B. J. Fourier, inspired in part by this problem, was the first to establish a quantitative theory in which a physical process is not time-reversible (heat conduction). The conflict between that theory and the time-reversibility of Newton's laws became inescapable in the late 19th century when physicists tried to derive the Second Law of Thermodynamics from an atomistic model based on Newtonian mechanics. Maxwell and Boltzmann tried to do this by assuming that atoms behave as if they move randomly. With the success of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, the phrase "as if" was forgotten, so when Einstein, Rutherford, Schrödinger, Born and Heisenberg explicitly postulated indeterminism at the atomic level, other physicists didn't have much difficulty accepting it. |
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