Information-Based Physics, Influence, and Forces
Abstract
In recent works, Knuth and Bahreyni have demonstrated that the concepts of space and time are emergent in a coarse-grained model of direct particle-particle influence. In addition, Knuth demonstrated that observer-made inferences regarding the free particle, which is defined as a particle that influences others, but is not itself influenced, result in a situation identical to the Feynman checkerboard model of the Dirac equation. This suggests that the same theoretical framework that gives rise to an emergent spacetime is consistent with quantum mechanics. In this paper, we begin to explore the effect of influence on the emergent properties of a particle. This initial study suggests that when a particle is influenced, it is interpreted as accelerating in a manner consistent with special relativity implying that, at least in this situation, influence can be conceived of as a force.
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@article{arxiv.1411.2163,
title = {Information-Based Physics, Influence, and Forces},
author = {James Lyons Walsh and Kevin H. Knuth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2163},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures, MaxEnt 2014 Conference, Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Amboise, FRANCE, 2014, edited by A. Mohammad-Djafari and F. Barbaresco, AIP, New York, 2014