Discrete Event Physics: Space and Time - Softcover

Delaney, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595331459 ISBN 13: 9780595331451

Publisher: iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Discrete Event Physics introduces a new branch of Physics directly concerned with elucidating the meaning of concepts traditionally studied in that discipline. It is complementary to Mathematical and Experimental Physics, being focused on the same ideas but having different specific goals.The theory has a fundamentally dynamic nature, its basic ingredients being structured discrete events, causal relations between events, and event properties.Formal languages are defined for defining events and properties and for comparing definitions, in particular definitions formulated in different paradigms.The theoretical ideas are exemplified by applications to Space and Time. In this context possible answers to many of the most fundamental unresolved problems in Physics are suggested: the nature of time, its apparent continuity, its apparent flow and directionality the nature of space, its apparent continuity, and the reasons behind its dimensionality the nature of matter the possible utility of numbers in defining meaning

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Synopsis

Discrete Event Physics introduces a new branch of Physics directly concerned with elucidating the meaning of concepts traditionally studied in that discipline. It is complementary to Mathematical and Experimental Physics, being focused on the same ideas but having different specific goals. It is proposed that elucidation of meaning be based on meaning models, whose underlying theory is presented, along with a methodology for their construction through a process of stepwise refinement. The theory has a fundamentally dynamic nature, its basic ingredients being structured discrete events, causal relations between events, and event properties. Formal languages are defined for defining events and properties and for comparing definitions, in particular definitions formulated in different paradigms. The theoretical ideas are exemplified by applications to Space and Time. In this context possible answers to many of the most fundamental unresolved problems in Physics are suggested: . the nature of time, its apparent continuity, its apparent flow and directionality . the nature of space, its apparent continuity, and the reasons behind its dimensionality . the nature of matter . the possible utility of numbers in defining meaning

About the Author

William Delaney has been involved for over forty years in theoretical and applied research in Physics and Discrete Event Simulation. His research activities were performed in national research laboratories in the USA and successively as a professor in the Italian University system. He now lives in Greenlawn NY.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595331459
• ISBN 13: 9780595331451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226