Decoherence, determinism and chaos revisited

Conference · Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:10108948

Noyes, H P

We suggest that the derivation of the free space Maxwell Equations for classical electromagnetism, using a discrete ordered calculus developed by L.H. Kauffman and T. Etter, necessarily pushes the discussion of determinism in natural science down to the level of relativistic quantum mechanics and hence renders the mathematical phenomena studied in deterministic chaos research irrelevant to the question of whether the world investigated by physics is deterministic. We believe that this argument reinforces Suppes` contention that the issue of determinism versus indeterminism should be viewed as a Kantian antinomy incapable of investigation using currently available scientific tools.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 10108948
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-6718; CONF-9407158-1; ON: DE95006070
• Resource Relation: Conference: Law and prediction in natural science in the light of new knowledge from chaos research,Salzburg (Austria),7-10 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: 15 Nov 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
RANDOMNESS
QUANTUM MECHANICS
MAXWELL EQUATIONS
SPACE-TIME
COUPLING CONSTANTS
ELECTROMAGNETISM
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