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On the nature of theories of irreversible processes

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The purpose of the present article is to give an elementary discussion of the nature of the theories used to describe the observed irreversible processes in gases to the equilibrium state, with special regard to the explicit mathematical time-reversal invariance or non-invariance of the theories.

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Wu, TY. On the nature of theories of irreversible processes. Int J Theor Phys 2, 325–343 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670700

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