David summarizes his distinction between inference by prediction/retrodiction and inference by measurement, and reiterates that this can make plausibl...

Tim opens with a brief point about the postulation of a very low entropy past state. He contrasts the claim that, if this state is not the initial sta...

Barry Loewer is the guest lecturer for this class. Tim starts by recapitulating the notion of typicality introduced in the previous lecture. Tim, Davi...

Tim and David begin by continuing their discussion of the 'Stosszahlansatz', the assumption that the number of particle collisions in a given subregio...

Time Maudlin starts by distinguishing and characterizing three different classes of explanations of thermodynamic phenomena previously studied in the ...

In this lecture, Tim Maudlin continues the statistical mechanical account of the velocity distribution of particles in a monatomic gas, and how this d...