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C. Hillman wrote:

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> Finally, let me stress again that ultimately if you want to think about
> this subject, I believe you will have to deal with some of the hardest
> subjects in physics, including the ancient question of how thermodynamics
> arises from statistical mechanics (the current "best theory" of this
> involves C*-algebras, i.e. pretty challenging stuff), various "paradoxes"
> involved in these "thermodynamic limits", and new and very hard questions
> in physics involving black hole thermodynamics and the (as yet unknown)
> theory of quantum gravity, such as the holography conjecture and the
> "information paradox", for which see various expository preprints on the
> Los Alamos preprint server
> 
>  http://xxx.lanl.gov
> 
> (note that this site has a search tool).




   I'd also add reference to the work of Prigogine.
   Here is perhaps a relevant article, which deals 
   with the concept of time.


   Time is treated in different manners on different
   occasions - eg: thermodynamics and evolution.
   http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/ilyatime.htm





Pete Brown
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