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Series on Knots and Everything - Vol. 27
BIT-STRING PHYSICS
A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy
by H Pierre Noyes (Stanford University, USA)
edited by J C van den Berg (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite, and discrete events. General relativity assumes a continuous, curved space–time. Reconciling the two remains the most fundamental unsolved scientific problem left over from the last century. The papers of H Pierre Noyes collected in this volume reflect one attempt to achieve that unification by replacing the continuum with the bit-string events of computer science. Three principles are used: physics can determine whether two quantities are the same or different; measurement can tell something from nothing; this structure (modeled by binary addition and multiplication) can leave a historical record consisting of a growing universe of bit-strings. This book is specifically addressed to those interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science.
Contents:
- Non-Locality in Particle Physics
- On the Physical
Interpretation and the Mathematical Structure of the Combinatorial Hierarchy (with T Bastin, J Amson & C W Kilmister)
- On the Construction of Relativistic Quantum Theory: A Progress Report
- Foundations of a Discrete Physics (with D McGoveran)
- Comment on "Statistical Mechanical Origin of the Entropy of a Rotating Charged Black Hole"
- Anti-Gravity: The Key to 21st Century Physics
- Crossing Symmetry is Incompatible with General Relativity
- Operationalism Revisited: Measurement Accuracy, Scale Invariance and the Combinatorial Hierarchy
- Discrete Physics and the Derivation of Electromagnetism from the Formalism of Quantum Mechanics (with L H Kauffman)
- Are Partons Confined Tachyons?
- A Short Introduction to Bit-String Physics
- Process, System, Causality and Quantum Mechanics: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith (with T Etter)
- and other papers
Readership: Researchers interested in the foundations of particle
physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science.
| 588pp |
Pub. date: Sept 2001 |
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