Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow

Physics Today

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 32-38

  Lebowitz, Joel L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 12044250952     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: 19450699     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881363     Document Type: Article

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