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Anne Bogart, and then, you act : making art in an unpredictable world
Review of Anne Bogart's 2007 'And then, you act: making art in an unpredictable world
The orientability of spacetime
Contrary to established beliefs, spacetime may not be time-orientable. By considering an experimental test of time-orientability it is shown that a failure of time-orientability of a spacetime region would be indistinguishable from a particle-antiparticle annihilation event
The Logic of Quantum Mechanics Derived from Classical General Relativity
For the first time it is shown that the logic of quantum mechanics can be
derived from Classical Physics. An orthomodular lattice of propositions,
characteristic of quantum logic, is constructed for manifolds in Einstein's
theory of general relativity. A particle is modelled by a topologically
non-trivial 4-manifold with closed timelike curves - a 4-geon, rather than as
an evolving 3-manifold. It is then possible for both the state preparation and
measurement apparatus to constrain the results of experiments. It is shown that
propositions about the results of measurements can satisfy a non-distributive
logic rather than the Boolean logic of classical systems. Reasonable
assumptions about the role of the measurement apparatus leads to an
orthomodular lattice of propositions characteristic of quantum logic.Comment: 16 pages Late
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