Timeline for Does the scientific community consider the Loschmidt paradox resolved? If so what is the resolution?
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| Mar 12, 2020 at 14:10 | comment | added | Normie | Not sure, but hasn't that part of the paradox resolved by agreeing that the molecular chaos assumption made by Boltzmann in his derivation was not correct and the velocities had correlations because of which you couldn't write them as one variable function product? | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | David Elm | Maybe there's a connection with quantum indeterminacy. The reversal of a sequence of events is only required to return to the initial conditions if the process is deterministic. If the sequence wasn't deterministic, if there was quantum randomness in the evolution of the system, then the reversal isn't guaranteed to recover the initial state. I wonder what this says about entropy. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 7:54 | comment | added | Marco Disce | "The Loschimidt paradox does not state that reversible laws of motion can not imply irreversible processes which sounds like a philosophical objection." Actually it would be a mathematical objection: a dynamical system that has time-symmetric evolution cannot produce a time-asymmetric system when we consider macroscopic variables that are time independent function of the microscopic variable (which have a time-symmetric evolution) | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:17 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Aug 4, 2012 at 17:41 | history | answered | Fortsaint | CC BY-SA 3.0 |