Quantum Gravity and Computation: Information, Pregeometry, and Digital Physics
暫譯: 量子重力與計算：資訊、前幾何與數位物理
Rickles, Dean, Arsiwalla, Xerxes D., Elshatlawy, Hatem
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商品描述
This volume argues that concepts from the theory of computation--including information theory, formal languages, and discrete structures--might provide novel paths towards a solution to the problem of quantum gravity. By combining elements of physics with computer science and mathematics, the volume proposes to transform the foundations of spacetime physics and bring it into the digital age.
In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent a new theoretical framework will be needed to solve the problem of quantum gravity. This kind of framework--sometimes referred to as "pregeometry" or even "prephysics"--goes beyond conventional mathematical conceptions of space, time, and matter, seeking their building blocks in more fundamental elements. The essays in this volume explore this approach from a variety of perspectives, including physics-based, mathematical, computational, and philosophical. The new formal frameworks needed to discuss such approaches have their roots in homotopy type theory, formal language theory, and higher category theory; the computational perspective is informed by connections between pregeometric structures and formal proofs and programs. The new philosophical fulcrum supporting these new avenues is inspired by constructivism and meta-structures. By probing at a level of structure beneath the ordinary structures used in general relativity and quantum mechanics, this volume seeks to find new ways of showing how these higher-order structures can be constructed from the deeper elements.
Quantum Gravity and Computation is an essential resource for scholars and graduate students interested in the philosophy of physics, quantum mechanics, and computational science.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書主張計算理論中的概念——包括資訊理論、形式語言和離散結構——可能為解決量子引力問題提供新穎的途徑。通過將物理學的元素與計算機科學和數學相結合，本書提議改變時空物理的基礎，並將其帶入數位時代。
近年來，越來越明顯需要一個新的理論框架來解決量子引力問題。這種框架——有時被稱為「前幾何」（pregeometry）或甚至「前物理學」（prephysics）——超越了傳統數學對空間、時間和物質的概念，尋求其基本構成要素。本書中的論文從多種角度探討這種方法，包括基於物理學、數學、計算和哲學的視角。討論這些方法所需的新形式框架根植於同倫類型理論、形式語言理論和高類別理論；計算的視角則受到前幾何結構與形式證明和程序之間聯繫的啟發。支持這些新途徑的新哲學支點受到建構主義和元結構的啟發。通過探究一般相對論和量子力學中使用的普通結構之下的結構層次，本書旨在尋找新的方法來展示這些高階結構如何從更深層的元素中構建而成。
《量子引力與計算》是對於對物理哲學、量子力學和計算科學感興趣的學者和研究生的重要資源。
作者簡介
Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, where he is also Co-Director of the University's interdisciplinary Centre of Time. Recent books include Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning (co-authored with Harald Atmanspacher; Routledge 2022); and Life is Short (2022).
Xerxes D. Arsiwalla is a Mathematical Physics Fellow at the Wolfram Institute for Computational Foundations of Science, working on quantum foundations, pregeometry, higher category theory, formal language, and consciousness. He is an Academic Director of Physics Programs at Wolfram Research USA and a Co-Founder of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS).
Hatem Elshatlawy is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of theoretical physics, computation, and philosophy. Formerly a Research Consultant at Wolfram Research, he has contributed to developments in observer theory, multi-computation, and metamathematics. His interests include constructivist foundations of physics, physics of computation, and the computation of physics.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
迪恩·瑞克斯（Dean Rickles）是悉尼大學現代物理歷史與哲學的教授，同時也是該大學跨學科時間中心的共同主任。最近的著作包括《雙重面向一元論與意義的深層結構》（與哈拉德·阿特曼斯帕赫共同撰寫；Routledge 2022）以及《生命短暫》（2022）。
澤克斯·D·阿爾西瓦拉（Xerxes D. Arsiwalla）是沃爾夫拉姆計算科學基礎研究所的數學物理研究員，專注於量子基礎、預幾何、高類別理論、形式語言和意識。他是沃爾夫拉姆研究公司美國物理項目的學術主任，也是數學意識科學協會（AMCS）的共同創始人。
哈特姆·艾爾沙特拉維（Hatem Elshatlawy）是一位跨學科研究者，專注於理論物理、計算和哲學的交集。曾任沃爾夫拉姆研究公司的研究顧問，他對觀察者理論、多重計算和元數學的發展做出了貢獻。他的研究興趣包括物理的建構主義基礎、計算的物理學以及物理的計算。
