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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Lots of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. It was a subtle story of quantum field theory, time reversal violation, General Relativity—and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. I worked on the quantum field theory of the vacuum —or effectively the “bulk properties of quantized fields”. No statistical mechanics.