寻找连续性:一位认识论哲学家的思想
In search of continuity: thoughts of an epistemic empiricist
摘要:
宇宙是数字的还是模拟的?在这篇文章中,我认为经典物理和量子物理都有限制,阻止我们明确回答这个问题。量子物理学这样做并不奇怪。经典物理学这样做是相当出乎意料的。事实上,我认为经典物理学本身只不过是一种方便的近似。无论哪种方式,事实证明,我们对宇宙的认识是离散的,因此要确定宇宙本身的潜在连续性非常困难,甚至是不可能的。
英文摘要:
Is the universe digital or analog? In this essay I argue that both classical and quantum physics include limits that prevent us from definitively answering that question. That quantum physics does so is no surprise. That classical physics does so is rather unexpected. In fact, I argue that classical physics is itself really nothing more than a convenient approximation. Either way, it turns out that our knowledge of the universe is discrete and so it is extraordinarily difficult, perhaps even impossible, to determine the underlying continuity of the universe itself.
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