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Clockwork Quantum Universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-05-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Besides the purely digital or analog interpretation of reality there is a third possibility which incorporates important aspects of both. This is the cyclic formulation of elementary systems, in which elementary particles are represented as classical strings vibrating in compact space-time dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. We will address these cyclic solutions as "de Broglie internal clocks". They constitute the deterministic gears of a consistent semi-classical description of quantum relativistic physics, providing in addition an appealing formulation of the notion of time.

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@article{arxiv.1205.1788,
  title  = {Clockwork Quantum Universe},
  author = {Donatello Dolce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1788},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

IV Prize, FQXi Essay Contest 2011 "Is Reality Digital or Analog?". 8 pages, minor corrections. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1111.3319

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