Causality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space-Time

Author:   R N Sen (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781282547032


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 August 2010
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Introducing graduate students and researchers to mathematical physics, this book discusses two recent developments: the demonstration that causality can be defined on discrete space-times; and Sewell's measurement theory, in which the wave packet is reduced without recourse to the observer's conscious ego, nonlinearities or interaction with the rest of the universe. The definition of causality on a discrete space-time assumes that space-time is made up of geometrical points. Using Sewell's measurement theory, the author concludes that the notion of geometrical points is as meaningful in quantum mechanics as it is in classical mechanics, and that it is impossible to tell whether the differential calculus is a discovery or an invention. Providing a mathematical discourse on the relation between theoretical and experimental physics, the book gives detailed accounts of the mathematically difficult measurement theories of von Neumann and Sewell.

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Author:   R N Sen (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781282547032


ISBN 10:   1282547038
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
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Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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