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Raw Thoughts on Mass (updated)

Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 2:18 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.

What good is a cortex if it doesn’t dream a little?
I have been thinking about Ariel Caticha and Carlo Cafaro’s derivation of Newton’s Second Law from probability theory (http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1071).  In this derivation, they assume three things:

There exist basic entities called particles
There is an intrinsic uncertainty about a particle’s position
There is change… not time necessarily, but change.

The first thing I [...]

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