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The incompleteness of extensional object languages of physics and time reversal. Part 2.

Holster, Andrew (2003) The incompleteness of extensional object languages of physics and time reversal. Part 2. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    This continues from Part 1. It is shown how an intensional interpretation of physics object languages can be formalised, and how a syntactic compositional time reversal operator can subsequently be defined. This is applied to solve the problems used as examples in Part 1. A proof of a general theorem that such an operator must be defineable (for any general transformation) is sketched. A number of related issues about the interpretation of theories of physics, including classical and quantum mechanics and classical EM theory are discussed.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Keywords: time reversal, logic of physics, intensional semantics for physics
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
    Specific Sciences > Physics
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
    Depositing User: [Nil] [Nil]
    Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2003
    Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 11:12
    Item ID: 1452
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1452

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