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.

• 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