Nonconservation of energy and loss of determinism. II: Colliding with an open set

DOI10.1007/S10701-009-9384-8zbMATH Open1192.37047OpenAlexW2140142839MaRDI QIDQ2268403FDOQ2268403

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 8 March 2010

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An actual infinity of colliding balls can be in a configuration in which the laws of mechanics lead to logical inconsistency. It is argued that one should therefore limit the domain of these laws to a finite, or only a potentially infinite number of elements. With this restriction indeterminism, energy non-conservation and (creatio ex nihilo) no longer occur. A numerical analysis of finite systems of colliding balls is given, and the asymptotic behavior that corresponds to the potentially infinite system is inferred.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09865

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zbMATH Keywords

energy conservationdeterminismmechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) The dynamics of infinite particle systems (70F45) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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