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The approach to the analysis of the dynamic of non-equilibrium open systems within the framework of the laws of classical mechanics on the example a hard-disks is offered. This approach was based on Hamilton and Liouville generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

The approach to a substantiation of thermodynamics is offered. A conservative system of interacting elements, which is not in equilibrium, is used as a model. This system is then split into small subsystems that are accepted as being in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

In this paper, the emergence of macroscopic-scale pseudo time-irreversibility is studied in the closed classical many-body system of pair interacting particles. First, exact continuum equations are derived to the Hamiltonian dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-04 Gyula I. Toth

One of the important questions in statistical mechanics is how irreversibility (time's arrow) occurs when Newton equations of motion are time reversal invariant. One objection to irreversibility is based on Poincar\'e's recursion theorem: a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-05 Dominique Levesque , Nicolas Sourlas

Understanding irreversibility in macrophysics from reversible microphysics has been the holy grail in statistical physics ever since the mid-19th century. Here the central question concerns the arrow of time, which boils down to deriving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yûto Murashita , Naoto Kura , Masahito Ueda

Numerical solutions to Newton's equations of motion for chaotic self gravitating systems of more than 2 bodies are often regarded to be irreversible. This is due to the exponential growth of errors introduced by the integration scheme and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

A kinetic equation is derived for the phase density of a system of point particles, generating a system of integro-differential equations for distribution functions that have a deterministic meaning. The derivation took into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-23 V. V. Zubkov , A. V. Zubkova

Time can be defined as the duration between events. It is irreversible. When used as a variable in quantifying the changing properties of matter, this irreversibility of time is incompatible with Newton's deterministic mechanics and with…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 X. de Hemptinne

Starting from the revelation of the nature of inertial forces, this article discusses the subdivision of the basic physical concept of space-time and raises questions about the metric of standard cosmology. A new form of particle dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 ChiYi Chen

The absence of unique time evolution in Einstein's spacetime description of gravity leads to the hitherto unresolved `problem of time' in quantum gravity. Shape Dynamics is an objectively equivalent representation of gravity that trades…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Julian Barbour , Tim Koslowski , Flavio Mercati

An equation describing the irreversible evolution of the local density of a continuous medium without involving any statistical hypotheses and assumptions is derived. The derivation is based on the smoothing of the microscopic dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-02 Victor V. Zubkov

The problem of the Nature of Time is twofold: whether or not time is a fundamental quantity of Nature, and how does clock time of metrology emerge in the experimental description of dynamics. This work strongly supports the fundamental…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Enrico Prati

Irreversibility implies a preferred flow of time, yet special relativity denies the existence of a preferred clock. This tension has long obstructed the formulation of a relativistic master equation: standard Markovian approximations either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Pranav Vaidhyanathan , Gerard J. Milburn

Molecular Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics make possible a particle-based understanding of Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamics, including the fascinating Loschmidt contradiction between time-reversible atomistic mechanics and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-26 William G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

We propose a new point of view regarding the problem of time in quantum mechanics, based on the idea of replacing the usual time operator $\mathbf{T}$ with a suitable real-valued function $T$ on the space of physical states. The proper…

Dynamics of systems of structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

We introduce a continuous time-reversal operation which connects the time-forward and time-reversed trajectories in the steady state of an irreversible Markovian dynamics via a continuous family of stochastic dynamics. This continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-10 Andreas Dechant , Shin-ichi Sasa

Loschmidt's paradox asks why macroscopic irreversibility is universal despite the time-reversal symmetry of microscopic dynamics. We argue that irreversibility is not a property of the dynamics but of accessibility: chaotic evolution drives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Ira Wolfson

We abandon the interpretation that time is a global parameter in quantum mechanics, replace it by a quantum dynamical variable playing the role of time. This operational re-interpretation of time provides a solution to the cosmological…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 M. J. Luo

A consistent classical and quantum relativistic mechanics can be constructed if Einstein's covariant time is considered as a dynamical variable. The evolution of a system is then parametrized by a universal invariant identified with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence P. Horwitz