Information Theory Applied To Space-time PhysicsWorld Scientific, 31.01.1993 - 320 Seiten The success of Newton's mechanic, Maxwell's electrodynamic, Einstein's theories of relativity, and quantum mechanics is a strong argument for the space-time continuum. Nevertheless, doubts have been expressed about the use of a continuum in a science squarely based on observation and measurement. An exact science requires that qualitative arguments must be reduced to quantitative statements. The observability of a continuum can be reduced from qualitative arguments to quantitative statements by means of information theory.Information theory was developed during the last decades within electrical communications, but it is almost unknown in physics. The closest approach to information theory in physics is the calculus of propositions, which has been used in books on the frontier of quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. Principles of information theory are discussed in this book. The ability to think readily in terms of a finite number of discrete samples is developed over many years of using information theory and digital computers, just as the ability to think readily in terms of a continuum is developed by long use of differential calculus. |
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Henning F Harmuth. This page is intentionally left blank Preface The concept of a space - time continuum has.
Henning F Harmuth. This page is intentionally left blank Preface The concept of a space - time continuum has.
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... continuum . Nevertheless , doubts have been expressed about the use of a continuum in a science squarely based on observation and measurement . No one has ever been able to show by direct observation that there is a space - time ...
... continuum . Nevertheless , doubts have been expressed about the use of a continuum in a science squarely based on observation and measurement . No one has ever been able to show by direct observation that there is a space - time ...
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... continuum . The beginning of this concept dates back at least to the time of Zeno of Elea ( c . 490 - c . 430 B.C. ) , who advanced paradoxes that were supposed to show that infinite divisibility of space and time were not possible ...
... continuum . The beginning of this concept dates back at least to the time of Zeno of Elea ( c . 490 - c . 430 B.C. ) , who advanced paradoxes that were supposed to show that infinite divisibility of space and time were not possible ...
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... continuum will distinguish the expo- nential function or the sine - cosine functions . Vice - versa , if the exponential function or the sine - cosine functions are sufficiently distinguished , we will have a strong argument in favor of ...
... continuum will distinguish the expo- nential function or the sine - cosine functions . Vice - versa , if the exponential function or the sine - cosine functions are sufficiently distinguished , we will have a strong argument in favor of ...
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... continuum of the physical space - time is questioned today . We turn to Lobachevskii's contemporary Johann Bolyai ( 1802–1860 ) . He shares with Lobachevskii the distinction of not only realizing that the parallel postulate was not ...
... continuum of the physical space - time is questioned today . We turn to Lobachevskii's contemporary Johann Bolyai ( 1802–1860 ) . He shares with Lobachevskii the distinction of not only realizing that the parallel postulate was not ...
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3 Coordinate Systems | 40 |
4 Time and Motion | 85 |
5 Propagation in Unusual Coordinate Systems | 104 |
6 Distinction of Sinusoidal Functions | 163 |
7 Discrete Topologies and Difference Equations | 197 |
8 Schrödinger and KleinGordon Difference Equations | 204 |
9 Schrödinger Difference Equation with Coulomb Field | 218 |
10 KleinGordon Difference Equation with Coulomb Field | 230 |
11 Dirac Difference Equation with Coulomb Field | 254 |
12 Mathematical Supplements | 270 |
References and Bibliography | 297 |
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