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As with any other scientific activity Loschmidt’s reversibility argument1 has both a factual and a historical context. The latter will be amply described in other contributions to this Symposium. Thus I will concentrate exclusively on how we view Loschmidt’s argument from a present-day perspective.
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Spohn, H. (1997). Loschmidt’s Reversibility Argument and the H-Theorem. In: Fleischhacker, W., Schönfeld, T. (eds) Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0268-9_14
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