Description: 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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EAN: 9781107424586
UPC: 9781107424586
ISBN: 9781107424586
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 24.4 cm
Number of Pages: 412 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Causality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space-Time
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Physics
Item Height: 244 mm
Item Weight: 650 g
Type: Textbook
Author: R. N. Sen
Item Width: 170 mm
Format: Paperback
