Download or read book Causality and time from relativity to quantum physics written by Marino Dobrowolny and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a description of the evolution of the concepts of causality and time through modern physics considering first relativity theories and them quantum mechanics. Relativity, at least in the form given by Einstein, denies reality of past, present and future and does not indicate a time direction. On the other hand a time direction is indicated by all the phenomena we observe including our own existence. Quantum mechanics seems to indicate a different story. It is argued that, because of its non deterministic character, it is capable to indicate an objective time direction. This occurs through the phenomena of wave function collapse and entanglement which are discussed at length.
Download or read book Time Causality and the Quantum Theory written by S. Mehlberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.
Download or read book Time Causality and the Quantum Theory written by Henry Mehlberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1980 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time Causality and the Quantum Theory written by S. Mehlberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.
Download or read book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics written by David Bohm and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.
Download or read book Quantum Reality Relativistic Causality and Closing the Epistemic Circle written by Wayne C. Myrvold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist as well as a philosopher, and is highly respected among the intellectuals of both communities. In line with Shimony’s conviction that philosophical investigation is not to be divorced from theoretical and empirical work in the sciences, the conference brought together leading theoretical physicists, experimentalists, as well as philosophers. This book collects twenty-three original essays stemming from the conference, on topics including history and methodology of science, Bell's theorem, probability theory, the uncertainty principle, stochastic modifications of quantum mechanics, and relativity theory. It ends with a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Lee Smolin and Shimony, ranging over the entire spectrum of Shimony's wide-ranging contributions to philosophy, science, and philosophy of science.
Download or read book Time Causality and the Quantum Theory written by S. Mehlberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Time written by Jan Zaanen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text revolves around a new and unusual view on the most fundamental puzzle of physics. It focusses on the key aspect that makes the role of the time dimension fundamentally different: causality. It deals on the one hand with general relativity, and on the other hand with quantum theory. The implicit and intuitive way by which causality is usually taken for granted is just made explicit and less self-evident, shedding a new light on the gravity-quantum conflict. The case is made that gravity is a necessary condition for a causal universe. But upon turning to the "pure" unitary quantum physics explaining the nature of matter one is dealing with the strictly a-causal time expressed through the thermal quantum field theory machinery. When this a-causal microscopic and causal macroscopic world meet, one encounters the wavefunction collapse, that itself may be rooted in the quantum-gravity conflict. Modern ideas are discussed resting on eigenstate thermalization showing how this may lie eventually at the origin of irreversible thermodynamics, with its famous second law setting also a direction of time. The case is anchored in the sophisticated modern mathematical machinery of both general relativity and quantum physics which is normally barely disseminated beyond the theoretical physics floors. The book is unique in the regard that the consequences of this machinery - Riemannian geometry and Penrose diagrams, thermal quantum fields, quantum non-equilibrium and so forth -- are explained in an original, descriptive language conveying the conceptual consequences while avoiding mathematical technicalities.
Download or read book Time in Physics written by Renato Renner and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important questions concerning the foundations of physics, especially since the discovery of relativity and quantum theory, is the nature and role of time. In this book we bring together researchers from different areas of physics, mathematics, computer science and philosophy to discuss the role time plays in physics. There have been few books on this topic to date, and two of the key aims of the workshop and this book are to encourage more researchers to explore this area, and to pique students’ interest in the different roles time plays in physics.
Download or read book Decoding Gravity Time and Causality written by Dr Rohit Kale and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in this book is the phenomenological description of a theory of Quantum Gravity which I call 'Dynamic General Relativity' without a sliver of complex mathematics. It is General Relativity reimagined. The theory explains what General Relativity means at the most fundamental level. Potential errors in Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relativity lie within the book with satisfactory corrections. Starting with GR, taking just a few assumptions from Loop Quantum Gravity and with just three additional assumptions i.e. 'Creation, Destruction and Entanglement', a rather complex theory can be constructed. General Relativity, Newtonian Dynamics, Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) pop out of the theory effortlessly at appropriate levels. The theory almost effortlessly unifies Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity and can offer a potential bridge between Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory, almost completely redefining how we look at higher dimensions and Strings. Definitions and explanations for poorly defined aspects of physics like inertia, kinetic energy, the relativity of time and space, wave-particle duality of light and matter and quantum superposition emerge out of it effortlessly. It can derive the causality of all the fundamental forces of nature and thus explain what causes phenomena like charge, attraction/repulsion, electromagnetic bonding, etc. It answers the fundamental questions like 'Why everything doesn't collapse under gravity?' or 'Why matter and antimatter did not annihilate each other at the time of creation?' and ultimately 'Why the universe exists?'. A must-read for every person or physicist who wishes to know the ultimate truth and is troubled by the enigmatic question, 'Why Newton's apple falls?'
Download or read book Quantum Causality written by Peter J. Riggs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no sharp dividing line between the foundations of physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum mechanics. The debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. (We shall understand the unqualified term ‘quantum mechanics’ to mean the mathematical formalism, i. e. laws and rules by which empirical predictions and theoretical advances are made. ) There is a popular rendering of quantum mechanics which has been publicly endorsed by some well known physicists which says that quantum mechanics is not only 1 more weird than we imagine but is weirder than we can imagine. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics has produced some strange and counter-intuitive results, the case will be presented in this book that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe! The prevailing theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory endows a special status on measurement processes by requiring an intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e. g. a measuring apparatus). The placement of the observer (or proxy) is somewhat arbitrary which introduces a degree of subjectivity. Orthodox Quantum Theory only predicts probabilities for measured values of physical quantities. It is essentially an instrumental theory, i. e.
Download or read book The Direction of Time written by Hans Reichenbach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, and time of quantum physics. Analytic methods of scientific philosophy in investigation of probability, quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, causality. 1971 edition.
Download or read book Quantum Physics of Time Travel written by Joseph Gabriel and published by Cosmology Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents 1: The Time Machine of Past Present and Future 2: Time Is Relative: Future, Past, Present Overlap and Exist Simultaneously 3: Time Dilation And The Contraction of Space Time 4: Twins, Time Travel, Gravity And Aging 5: Time Travel And Aging: Clocks, Gravity, Altitude, Longitude & Longevity 6: Acceleration, Light Speed, Time Travel, G-Forces And Fuel 7: The Curvature of Space-Time: Gravity and the Bending of Light and Time 8: The Circle of Time: In A Rotating Universe The Future Leads to the Past 9: Time Travel Through Black Holes in the Fabric of Space-Time 10: Microscopic Time Travel At the Speed of Light 11: "Worm Holes" In Extreme Curvatures of Space Time 12: Worm Holes, Negative Energy, Casimir Force And The Einstein-Rosen Bridge 13: Black Holes And Gravitational Sling Shots 14. The Time Traveler in Miniature: Negative Mass and Energy 15: Tachyons, Negative Energy, The Circle of Time: From the Future to the Past 16. Duality: The Past And Future In Parallel 17: The Mirror of Time: Red Shift, Blue Shifts and Duality 18. Into the Past: Duality, Anti-Matter and Conservation of Energy 19: Quantum Entanglement And Causality: The Future Effects the Past 20: Light, Wave Functions and the Uncertainty Principle: Changing the Future and the Past 21: Paradoxes of Time Travel and the Multiple Worlds of Quantum Physics 22. Epilogue: A Journey Though The Many Worlds of Time 23: References
Download or read book Space Time and Causality written by Richard Swinburne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alter nate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psychology, education and the social sciences. The volumes arising from these conferences have included discussions between philosophers and distinguished practitioners of other disciplines relevant to the chosen topic. Beginning with the 1979 conference on 'Law, Morality and Rights' and the 1981 conference on 'Space, Time and Causality' these volumes are now constituted as a series. It is hoped that this series will contribute to advancing philosophical understanding at the frontiers of philosophy and areas of interest to non-philosophers. It is hoped that it will do so by writing which reduces technicalities as much as the subject-matter permits. In this way the series is intended to demonstrate that philosophy can be clear and worthwhile in itself and at the same time relevant to the interests of lay people.
Download or read book Time Causality and the Quantum Theory Time in a quantized universe written by Henry Mehlberg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Causality in Natural Science written by Victor Fritz Lenzen and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complementarity Causality and Explanation written by John Losee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discussions presupposed that successful causal attribution implies explanation. The success of quantum theory challenged this presupposition. Bohr introduced a principle of complementarity that provides a new way of looking at causality and explanation.In this succinct review of the history of these discussions, John Losee presents the philosophical background of debates over the cause-effect relation. He reviews the positions of Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill. He shows how nineteenth-century theories in physics and chemistry were informed by a dominant theory of causality and how specific developments in physics provided the background for the emergence of quantum theory.Problems created for the causality implies explanation thesis by the emergence of quantum theory are reviewed in detail. Losee evaluates Bohr's proposals to apply a principle of complementarity within physics, biology, and psychology. He also discusses the feasibility of using complementarity as a principle of interpretation within Christian theology. This volume, which includes an in-depth index, is an essential addition to the libraries of advanced undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, and those interested in causality and explanation.
