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عنوان مقاله [English]
With the discovery of second law of thermodynamics and the attempt
to supervene it on the classical dynamics, the paradox of irreversibility
showed up for the first time, as the laws of classical dynamics, in
contrast to the second law of thermodynamics, were reversible and
symmetric with respect to time. In this paper, after reviewing the
problem of irreversibility, we pin down two rival approaches to the
problem. The first approach whose pioneer is Ilya Prigogine claims that
irreversibility arises out of dynamical instabilities defined as “disorder”
at microscopic level. However, according to the rival theory, which is
advocated by Price and Bricmont, irreversibility at macroscopic level
arises out of specific initial conditions of the world. This is not
contrasted with the notion of irreversibility at microscopic level.
Although the two rival theories are completely different with respect to
their theoretical foundations, I will show that one can trace a consensus
in a view that reversibility is “practically in principle” impossible. This
is the term I have coined for the commonality between the two opposed
theories
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