Published April 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Physical phenomena as sense determinate occurrences

Creators

  • 1. University of Kassel, Department of Mechanical Engineering, D-34109 Kassel, Moenchebergstr.7 (Germany)

Description

In the view of El Naschie's E Infinity theory [Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 22 (2004) 495], our physical laws emerge from a chaotic underground, a 'Dirac-sea'. But we have no direct access from our observations to this chaotic world and this implies that the meaning of the correspondence between the phenomena we obtain by our cognition and their causal structures remains hidden to us. The fundamental process which produces our cognition is the 'constitution of sense'. A formal description of this process will be presented. We use Dempster Shafer's belief calculus to define 'belief' and motivate an Anticipation Principle: 'Put the measurements obtained from the world in such an order that the credibility of your forecasts will be maximized.' From this specification of the basic idea of what physical science ideally strives for, we are able to deduce a frame of reference for the formation of phenomena out of arbitrary sets of measurements. Reality is formed by these 'observable phenomena'. In this emerging reality, we recognize characteristic effects and principles of modern physics: Einstein's Postulate of Relativity, Entanglement, and the Quantum Zeno Effect. The presented view of reality is closely related to the ideas that had been presented hundred years ago by Ernst Mach and which recently J. Anandan generalized in his concept of a 'Relational Reality'

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2004.07.016;
PII
S0960-0779(04)00467-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 7-12
ISSN
0960-0779

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36048668
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CAUSALITY; CHAOS THEORY; DIRAC COSMOLOGY; EINSTEIN EFFECT; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGY; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICS; RELATIVITY THEORY

Optional Information

Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.