The Arrow of Time

by Claes Johnson (CSC)

Tuesday 5 Feb 2008, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Stockholm

Roslagstullsbacken 35

We present a new resolution based on finite precision computation of the enigma of how irreversibility can arise in formally reversible Hamiltonian systems without resort to statistics. We discuss implications concerning the direction of time or the Arrow of Time in mechanics, physics, chemistry and biology.