TY - JOUR
T1 - In Praise of Clausius Entropy
T2 - Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics
AU - Weaver, Christopher Gregory
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - I will argue, pace a great many of my contemporaries, that there's something right about Boltzmann's attempt to ground the second law of thermodynamics in a suitably amended deterministic time-reversal invariant classical dynamics, and that in order to appreciate what's right about (what was at least at one time) Boltzmann's explanatory project, one has to fully apprehend the nature of microphysical causal structure, time-reversal invariance, and the relationship between Boltzmann entropy and the work of Rudolf Clausius.
AB - I will argue, pace a great many of my contemporaries, that there's something right about Boltzmann's attempt to ground the second law of thermodynamics in a suitably amended deterministic time-reversal invariant classical dynamics, and that in order to appreciate what's right about (what was at least at one time) Boltzmann's explanatory project, one has to fully apprehend the nature of microphysical causal structure, time-reversal invariance, and the relationship between Boltzmann entropy and the work of Rudolf Clausius.
KW - Boltzmann
KW - Causation
KW - Entropy
KW - Irreversibility
KW - Statistical mechanics
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U2 - 10.1007/s10701-021-00437-w
DO - 10.1007/s10701-021-00437-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105939243
SN - 0015-9018
VL - 51
JO - Foundations of Physics
JF - Foundations of Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 59
ER -