The Mystery of Time Asymmetry of Time and Irreversibility in the Natural Processes

The book focuses on the study of the temporal behavior of complex many-particle systems. The phenomenon of time and its role in the temporal evolution of complex systems is a remaining mystery. The book presents the necessity of the interdisciplinary point of view regarding on the phenomenon of time.
The aim of the present study is to summarize and formulate in a concise but clear form the trends and approaches to the concept of time from a broad interdisciplinary perspective exposing tersely the complementary approaches and theories of time in the context of thermodynamics, statistical physics, cosmology, theory of information, biology and biophysics, including the problem of time and aging. Various approaches to the problem show that time is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary and multifaceted underlying notion which plays an extremely important role in various natural complex processes.
Contents:The Enigma of TimeThe Physics of TimeTime in Classical and Quantum MechanicsThe Entropy ConceptMethods of Statistical MechanicsThe Exotic Thermodynamic StatesEntropy: Development and GeneralizationIrreversibility and Natural ProcessesTemporal Evolution and Arrow of TimeThe Physics of Non-equilibrium ProcessesLife, Complexity and TimeEpilogue
Readership: Academic, physicists, chemists, biologists, historian of sciences, general public.