Beyond peaceful coexistence : the emergence of space, time and quantum

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Beyond peaceful coexistence : the emergence of space, time and quantum

edited by Ignazio Licata ; foreword by G. 't Hooft

Imperial College Press, c2016

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'It may be that a real synthesis of quantum and relativity theories requires not just technical developments but radical conceptual renewal.'J S BellBeyond Peaceful Coexistence: The Emergence of Space, Time and Quantum brings together leading academics in mathematics and physics to address going beyond the 'peaceful coexistence' of space-time descriptions (local and continuous ones) and quantum events (discrete and non-commutative ones). Formidable challenges waiting beyond the Standard Model require a new semantic consistency within the theories in order to build new ways of understanding, working and relating to them. The original A. Shimony meaning of the peaceful coexistence (the collapse postulate and non-locality) appear to be just the tip of the iceberg in relation to more serious fundamental issues across physics as a whole.Chapters in this book present perspectives on emergent, discrete, geometrodynamic and topological approaches, as well as a new interpretative spectrum of quantum theories after Copenhagen, discrete time theories, time-less approaches and 'super-fluid' pictures of space-time.As well as stimulating further research among established theoretical physicists, the book can also be used in courses on the philosophy and mathematics of theoretical physics.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Structures and Interpretation in Theoretical Physics: From Coexistence to Totality (I Licata)
  • The Algebraic Way (Basil Hiley)
  • Fermi Blobs and the Symplectic Camel: A Geometric Picture of Quantum States (Maurice A de Gosson)
  • Quantum Gravity: Has Spacetime Quantum Properties? (Reiner Hedrich)
  • Introduction to the Quantum Theory of Elementary Cycles (Donatello Dolce)
  • Observers and Reality (George Jaroszkiewicz)
  • The Stability of Physical Theories Principle (Rui Vilela Mendes)
  • Factory of Realities: On the Emergence of Virtual Spatiotemporal Structures (R Zapatrin)
  • Space-Time From Topos Quantum Theory (C Flori)
  • Planck Lattice in a de Sitter Universe (I Licata)
  • From Born Reciprocity to Reciprocal Relativity: A Paradigm for Space-time Physics (P D Jarvis)
  • World Crystal Model of Gravity (Hagen Kleinert)
  • Quantum Features Arising in Natural Cellular Automata (T Elze)
  • Structurally Dynamic Cellular Networks as Models for Planck-Scale Physics and the Quantum Vacuum (Manfred Requardt)
  • On a Time-Space Operator (and other Non-Selfadjoint Operators) for Observables in QM and QFT with Chronon (E Recami, Zamboni Rached and I Licata)
  • Emergent Space-time (G Chapline)
  • The Idea of a Stochastic Space-Time: Theory and Experiments (M Consoli and A Pluchino)
  • ... and Kronos Ate His Sons (G Vitiello)
  • The Emergence of Spacetime: Transactions and Causal Sets(R Kastner)
  • An Adynamical, Graphical Approach to Quantum Gravity and Unification (W M Stuckey, Michael Silberstein and Timothy McDevitt)
  • Is Bohr s Challenge Still Relevant? (L Chiatti)
  • Schrodinger-Milne Big Bang - Creating a 'Universe of Threeness' (Geoffrey F Chew)
  • Quantized Fields a la Clifford and Unification (M Pavsic)
  • Noncommutative Einstein, almost Kahler-Finsler and Quantum Deformations (S Vacaru)

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