FROM NEW FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS TO THE FORMULA FOR ENTROPY PRODUCTION RATE.

Why the classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are reversible while the macroscopic thermodynamic processes are irreversible? Is it because both of the two are different fundamental laws? If yes, what is the difference between them? What is the fundamental equation of nonequilibrium statistical physics? Can it provide a unified framework of statistical physics including nonequilibrium states and equilibrium states? How can we derive rigorously the hydrodynamic equations from microscopic kinetics? Does nonequilibrium entropy obey any evolution equation? What is the form of this equation if it exist? What is the microscopic physical basis of entropy production rate namely the law of entropy increase? Can it be described by a quantitative concise formula? What mechanism is responsible for the processes of approach to equlibrium? How to quantitatively describe it? In this paper we try to solve all these problems from a new fundamental equation of statistical physics in a unified fasion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]