【引 言】
We are in front of the tremendous catastrophe in modern theoretical physics. Moreover, we have reached the revolutionary situation not only in physics but also in natural philosophy on the whole. Practically we are in front of the new challenge since Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy was first published in 1687. It is impossible to believe that in more than 300 years afterNewton, we have the situation when 96% of matter and energy is of unknown origin. As it is shown in this monograph, the origin of difficulties consists in the total oversimplification inherent in local physics of the dissipative processes.
In the latter part of twentieth century, two very important results were obtained:
(1) The Irish physicist John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) was to show that all local statistical theories of dissipative processes are wrong in principal.
(2) The Russian physicist Boris V. Alexeev was to show that the derivation of kinetic equation with respect to one-particle distribution function from the BBGKY equations (prior to introducing any approximation destined to break the Bogolyubov chain) leads to additional terms of the non-local origin, generally of the same order of magnitude, appear in the Boltzmann equation. Then the passage to the Boltzmann equation means the neglect of non-local effects. These additional terms cannot be omitted even in the limit cases of kinetic theory, therefore Boltzmann equation is only a plausible equation.
Therefore, the case in point is of unprecedented situation in physics, when the fundamental physical equation is revised. During my stay in Marseille as invited professor, A.J.A. Favre reminds me Henri Poincare´s phrase after the death of a great Austrian physicist—“Boltzmann was wrong, but his mistake is equal to zero.” It is a pity, but the situation in kinetic theory is much more serious.
The scientific community was convinced that the mentioned results could lead only to rather small corrections in the modern theoretical physics. So to speak—4% corrections to 96% of the known results, but not quite the reverse! Many scientists are aware that some way out will be achieved after creation of the unified theory of transport processes working from the structure of so-called elementary particles to the Universe evolution. This theory is in front of you.
This book reflects the scales of these alterations. One is safe to say that—as the main result of the non-local physical kinetics—this theory has showed it to be a highly effective tool for solving many physical problems in areas where the
classical theory runs into difficulties.
Author is deeply indebted to V.L. Ginzburg and F. Uhlig for their interest in this work and in the subject in general. I am thankful to V. Mikhailov, I. Ovchinnikova, and A. Fedoseyev for cooperation.
This book is devoted to the memory of my mother.
January 2014