The solution of the sixth Hilbert problem: the ultimate Galilean revolution

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2017.0224zbMATH Open1470.81009arXiv1801.09561OpenAlexW2787778746WikidataQ52647998 ScholiaQ52647998MaRDI QIDQ5154191FDOQ5154191

Authors: Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano 

Publication date: 4 October 2021

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I argue for a full mathematisation of the physical theory, including its axioms, which must contain no physical primitives. In provocative words: "physics from no physics". Although this may seem an oxymoron, it is the royal road to keep complete logical coherence, hence falsifiability of the theory. For such a purely mathematical theory the physical connotation must pertain only the interpretation of the mathematics, ranging from the axioms to the final theorems. On the contrary, the postulates of the two current major physical theories either don't have physical interpretation (as for von Neumann's axioms for quantum theory), or contain physical primitives as "clock", "rigid rod ", "force", "inertial mass" (as for special relativity and mechanics). A purely mathematical theory as proposed here, though with limited (but relentlessly growing) domain of applicability, will have the eternal validity of mathematical truth. It will be a theory on which natural sciences can firmly rely. Such kind of theory is what I consider to be the solution of the Sixth Hilbert's Problem. I argue that a prototype example of such a mathematical theory is provided by the novel algorithmic paradigm for physics, as in the recent information-theoretical derivation of quantum theory and free quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09561

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum automatamathematical physicsalgorithmic paradigmVI Hilbert problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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