Branching space-time (Q1198418)
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Branching space-time (English)
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16 January 1993
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`Branching space-time' is a simple blend of relativity and indeterminism. Postulates and definitions rigorously describe the `causal order' relation between possible point events. The key postulate is a version of `everything has a causal origin'; key defined terms include `history' and `choice point'. Some elementary but helpful facts are proved. Application is made to the status of causal contemporaries of indeterministic events, to how `splitting' of histories happens, to indeterminism without choice, and to Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen distant correlations.
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causal order
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choice point
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indeterminism
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indeterministic events
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histories
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen distant correlations
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