A view on the physical meaning of the so called ergodic hypothesis: its role on
the foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics in mid ’1800, its
interpretations and hints at its relevance for modern nonequilibrium statistical
mechanics. Followed by appendices with detailed comments on the original papers.
Raphaël Chétrite, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi, Kay Schwieger
AbstractWe present an English translation of Erwin Schrödinger’s paper on “On
the Reversal of the Laws of Nature‘’. In this paper, Schrödinger analyses the
idea of time reversal of a diffusion process. Schrödinger’s paper acted as a
prominent source of inspiration for the works of Bernstein on reciprocal
processes and of Kolmogorov on time reversal properties of Markov processes and
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