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Irreversibility and Mechanics

Nature volume 178, page 382 (1956)Cite this article

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MR. R. SCHLEGEL'S definition of temporal reversibility, which he credits to Morpurgo, Radicati and Touschek, is clearly too narrow. It has to be extended, so as to cover a (conservative) physical system rather than one single particle.

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    K. R. POPPER

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POPPER, K. Irreversibility and Mechanics. Nature 178, 382 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178382a0

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