Title: Determinism and Indeterminism in a New “Level” Conception of Matter
Abstract: This chapter describes the determinism and indeterminism in a new “Level” conception of matter. The question of determinism in any given physical theory can only be discussed within the frame of its basic postulates. To understand it within the frame of quantum mechanics, the chapter reviews the basic postulates of classical mechanics in short. This set of postulates constitute what is called as “Newtonian (or Laplacian) determinism.” In their frame, there is no such thing as objective probability, because all statistical laws (the gas laws, for example) result in reality from very complex motions (due to uncorrelated collisions) that in principle can be analyzed in detail. All such laws should be derivable from the basic determinist laws. Determinism could recover statistical behavior that in its turn could be analyzed as uncorrelated deeper motion, and so on ad infinitum. In principle, new mechanics could be needed as one descends step by step into the infinitesimal world or ascend into higher and higher energy domains.
Publication Year: 1966
Publication Date: 1966-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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