Download or read book Bit-String Physics written by H Pierre Noyes and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite, and discrete events. General relativity assumes a continuous, curved space-time. Reconciling the two remains the most fundamental unsolved scientific problem left over from the last century. The papers of H Pierre Noyes collected in this volume reflect one attempt to achieve that unification by replacing the continuum with the bit-string events of computer science. Three principles are used: physics can determine whether two quantities are the same or different; measurement can tell something from nothing; this structure (modeled by binary addition and multiplication) can leave a historical record consisting of a growing universe of bit-strings. This book is specifically addressed to those interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science. Contents: Non-Locality in Particle PhysicsOn the Physical Interpretation and the Mathematical Structure of the Combinatorial Hierarchy (with T Bastin, J Amson & C W Kilmister)On the Construction of Relativistic Quantum Theory: A Progress ReportFoundations of a Discrete Physics (with D McGoveran)Comment on “Statistical Mechanical Origin of the Entropy of a Rotating Charged Black Hole”Anti-Gravity: The Key to 21st Century PhysicsCrossing Symmetry is Incompatible with General RelativityOperationalism Revisited: Measurement Accuracy, Scale Invariance and the Combinatorial HierarchyDiscrete Physics and the Derivation of Electromagnetism from the Formalism of Quantum Mechanics (with L H Kauffman)Are Partons Confined Tachyons?A Short Introduction to Bit-String PhysicsProcess, System, Causality and Quantum Mechanics: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith (with T Etter)and other papers Readership: Researchers interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science. Keywords:Bit-String Physics