Title After Physics.

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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2015.

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Note	Includes index.
Contents	Physics and chance -- The difference between the past and the future -- The past-hypothesis and knowledge of the external world -- The technique of significables -- Physics and narrative -- Quantum mechanics and life -- Primitive ontology -- Probability in the everett picture.
Language	English.
Summary	Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative of "befores" and "afters."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Physics -- Philosophy.
	SCIENCE -- Energy.
	SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
	SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
	Physics -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01063079
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe After Physics
ISBN	0674735501 (electronic bk.)
	9780674735507 (electronic bk.)
	0674731263
	9780674731264
Standard No.	10.4159/harvard.9780674735507 doi

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