Causation & Physics
Quantum Physics
2016-10-26 v1 Physics Education
Abstract
Philosophical analyses of causation take many forms but one major difficulty they all aim to address is that of the spatio-temporal continuity between causes and their effects. Bertrand Russell in 1913 brought the problem to its most transparent form and made it a case against the notion of causation in physics. In this essay, I focus on this subject of causal continuity and its related issues in classical and quantum physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9906061,
title = {Causation & Physics},
author = {Cynthia K. W. Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9906061},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Invited talk delivered at the III Adriatico Research Conference on Quantum Interferometry, ICTP, March 1-5,1999. Paper submitted to the proceedings. 10 pages, 10 eps figures