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Time asymmetric phenomena are successfully predicted by statistical mechanics. Yet the foundations of this theory are surprisingly shaky. Its explanation for the ease of mixing milk with coffee is incomplete, and even implies that un-mixing them should be just as easy. In this book the authors develop a new conceptual foundation for statistical mechanics that addresses this difficulty. Explaining the notions of macrostates, probability, measurement, memory, and the arrow of time in statistical mechanics, they reach the startling conclusion that Maxwell's Demon, the famous perpetuum mobile, is consistent with the fundamental physical laws. Mathematical treatments are avoided where possible, and instead the authors use novel diagrams to illustrate the text. This is a fascinating book for graduate students and researchers interested in the foundations and philosophy of physics.

Maxwell's demon --- Second law of thermodynamics --- Statistical thermodynamics --- Maxwell, James Clerk, --- Maxwell, James Clerk --- Statistical mechanics --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Statistical thermodynamics. --- Maxwell, Démon de --- Mécanique statistique --- Deuxième principe de la thermodynamique --- Thermodynamique statistique --- Maxwell's demon. --- Demon of Maxwell --- Maxwell demon --- Thermodynamics --- Quantum theory --- Statistical physics --- 2nd law of thermodynamics --- Laws of thermodynamics --- Maksvell, Dzhems Klerk, --- Maxwell, J. Clerk --- Maxwell, J. C. --- Maxwell, Clerk, --- Maksvell, Dzheĭms Klerk, --- Physics --- General and Others --- Maxwell, James Clerk, - 1831-1879

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James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists-G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge-along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."

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