Rumors of transcendence in physics
作者:
William G. Pollard,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 52,
issue 10
页码: 877-881
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1119/1.13901
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
关键词: PHYSICS;COSMOLOGY;UNIVERSE;QUANTUM MECHANICS;PROBABILITY
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
There are several hints in physics of a domain of external reality transcendent to three‐dimensional space and time. This paper calls attention to several of these intimations of a real world beyond the natural order. Examples are the complex state functions in configuration space of quantum mechanics, the singularity at the birth of the universe, the anthropic principle, the role of chance in evolution, and the unaccountable fruitfulness of mathematics for physics. None of these examples touch on the existence or activity of God, but they do suggest that external reality may be much richer than the natural world which it is the task of physics to describe.
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