9783319708140 - physical (a)causality: determinism, randomness and uncaused events (fundamental theories of physics, 192, band 192) von svozil, karl (1 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Springer, 2018
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This open access book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge…is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: are these limitations reflected by our models Under what circumstances does chance kick in Is chance in physics merely epistemic In other words, do we simply not know enough, or use too crude levels of description for our predictions Or are certain events 'truly', that is, irreducibly, random The book tries to answer some of these questions by introducing intrinsic, embedded observers and provable unknowns; that is, observables and procedures which are certified (relative to the assumptions) to be unknowable or undoable. A (somewhat iconoclastic) review of quantum mechanics is presented which is inspired by quantum logic. Postulated quantum (un-)knowables are reviewed. More exotic unknowns originate in the assumption of classical continua, and in finite automata and generalized urn models, which mimic complementarity and yet maintain value definiteness. Traditional conceptions of free will, miracles and dualistic interfaces are based on gaps in an otherwise deterministic universe.
