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Professor Maruani has asked me to write a short message for the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics (ICTCP-IV). I do it with pleasure but I am aware of the difficulty. Our recent work is devoted to an ambitious problem: How to formulate the basic laws of dynamics, classical or quantum, in such a manner that chemical kinetics, which is time irreversible, is included? I think that you would agree this is an interesting problem but, as you could expect, it is a difficult one. It has taken me many years to formulate it exactly and to come close to its solution.
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Prigogine, I. (2003). Dynamical Roots of Time Symmetry Breaking. In: Maruani, J., Lefebvre, R., Brändas, E.J. (eds) Advanced Topics in Theoretical Chemical Physics. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0635-3_1
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