Nature 246, 67 - 71 (09 November 1973); doi:10.1038/246067a0

Irreversibility as a Symmetry-breaking Process

I. PRIGOGINE

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, and Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

This article is based on the 1972 Bourke lectures of the Faraday Division of the Chemical Society.

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