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  3. Causality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space-Time
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      • R. N. Sen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2010
      February 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511674761
      9780521880541
      9781107424586
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511674761
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.89kg, 412 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 412 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
      Series:
      Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
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    Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
    Series:
    Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
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    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.

    Reviews

    'Sen has written a superb book. It should be of special interest to any serious senior undergraduate or graduate student in theoretical physics, and to mathematical physicists and mathematicians working in quantum theory, quantum field theory, relativity, or the foundations of physics.'

    Source: Mathematics Review

    'A great deal of interesting historical material is included in these pages, some of it hard to find elsewhere … the book has a good claim for a place on library shelves.'

    Source: Contemporary Physics

    '… this is a book for a devoted reader with special interests in this area …'

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