Quantum Cybernetics: Toward a Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory via Circularly Causal Modeling
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Main Author: Grössing, Gerhard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2000
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Some 350 years ago, in his Discorsi e Dimostrationi Matematici [Galilei], Galileo Galilei discussed whether or not light propagated with a finite though very high velocity, or with infinite speed, instantaneously. The question was an open one then, with prominent proponents for either position. For example, Rene Descartes argued on philosophical grounds that light dispersed itself into all of space instantaneously, whereas Galileo was more inclined toward the idea of a finite velocity. In fact, he even reported about an early experiment, which, however, would have to be refined and performed 1 again to reach a definite conclusion. "Sagredo: ... However, of which kind, and how high might we estimate the velocity of light? Is the appearance instantaneous, momentaneous, or, like other movements, temporal? Could one decide this experimentally? Simplicio: Daily experience teaches us, that the spreading of light be instantaneous; if in a large distance the artillery performs shooting exercises, we see the glare of the flame without the ear perceives the sound only after some time delay, while considerable time
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 153 p)
ISBN:9781461212966
9781461270836
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-1296-6

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