Energy conservation and supertasks

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.01.002MaRDI QIDQ643464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia

Publication date 31 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.01.002

zbMATH Keywords

energy conservationindeterminismsupertasks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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Cites work

• Avoiding infinite masses
• Losing energy in classical, relativistic and quantum mechanics
• Supertasks, dynamical attractors and indeterminism
• Two ways of looking at a Newtonian supertask
• What is a Newtonian system? The failure of energy conservation and determinism in supertasks

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• Continuity of motion in Whitehead's geometrical space
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• On the dynamics of Alper and Bridger
• The significance of relativistic computation for the philosophy of mathematics
• Evolution nodes in Newtonian supertasks
• Avoiding infinite masses
• Comments on Laraudogoitia's ‘Classical Particle Dynamics, Indeterminism and a Supertask’
• A relativistic Zeno effect

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