Boltzmann's H-theorem, its Discontents, and the Birth of Statistical Mechanics
A comparison is made of the traditional Loschmidt (reversibility) and Zermelo (recurrence) objections to Boltzmann's <em>H</em>-theorem, and its simplified variant in the Ehrenfests’ 1912 wind-tree model. The little-cited 1896 (measure-theoretic) objection of Zermelo (similar to an...
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Elsevier
2009
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