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PROF. K. R. POPPER1, in several communications on the nature of irreversible processes, has formulated the idea that the irreversibility of a simple physical process arises from the causal impossibility of arranging for coherence between the independent oscillators required for the operation which is the inverse of that process.
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BOSWORTH, R. Irreversible Processes in Physical Theory. Nature 181, 402 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181402a0
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