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Time, Irreversibility and Structure

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The legacy of Newtonian mechanics is a concept of a world in which time is essentially a parameter associated with motion 1. As early as 1796, Lagrange called mechanics a four-dimensional geometry2. The two great revolutions we have witnessed in physics during this century, relativity and quantum mechanics, have kept unmodified this character of Newton’s world model.

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Prigogine, I. (1973). Time, Irreversibility and Structure. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_29

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