If we take seriously literal interpretations of quantum theory and general relativity then the question posed in the title is no. This article highlights where incompatibilities arise by considering our experience in the context of modern physics. Implied nonmaterial minds possess a property that no physical entity does-localisation in the configur...
Published in International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
Limitation of rights is a measure proved its effectiveness with positive results for the community in war, military or another emergency.Attitude to rightsmust be human with a view to the right-to-human relationshipbecause the crossing of a certain boundary leads to a disintegration of rights and a negative impact on the personality.This implies ne...
In a universe of arbitrary spacetime geometry, we introduce a referential centered at the observer that constitutes a consistent representation of its environment and in which he performs measurements. We postulate some natural rules applying in this representation referential, that match our everyday experience of the physical world. We show that ...
A stationary and axisymmetric (in fact circular) metric is reviewed which describes the first-order perturbation of a Schwarzschild black-hole space-time due to a rotating finite thin disc encircling the hole symmetrically. The key Green functions of the problem (corresponding to an infinitesimally thin ring)&mdash / the one for the gravitational p...
Published in Journal of synchrotron radiation
A simple approach exploits quantum properties to justify the dependence on γ4 of the total synchrotron emitted power. It also clarifies some apparent puzzles and brings to light the underlying, multiple relativistic phenomena.
The Lorentz group is a symmetry group on Minkowski space, and as such is central to studying the geometry of this and related spaces. The group therefore shows up also from physical considerations, such as trying to formulate quantum physics in anti-de Sitter space. In this thesis, the Lorentz group in 2+1 dimensions and its representations are inv...
Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin have argued that the insights obtained through the philosophical analysis of video games is not specific to video games, but to a larger class of artistic creations they term Self-Involving Interactive Fictions, or SIIFs. But there is at least one aspect of SIIF video games that is philosophically interesting and does no...
Published in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
We study the free boundary problem for the 'hard phase' material introduced by Christodoulou in (Christodoulou 1995 Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 130, 343-400), both for rods in (1 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time and for spherically symmetric balls in (3 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time. Unlike Christodoulou, we do not consider a 'soft phase...
This paper is about a little known part of Allais’ oeuvre, namely his restatement of the quantity theory of money. It shows that this restatement contains an original refinement of the notion of stability of the relative demand for money. To explain this refinement, this essay investigates Allais’ concept of psychological time – a concept strongly ...
Published in Entropy
The Landauer principle quantifies the thermodynamic cost of the recording/erasure of one bit of information, as it was stated by its author: “information is physical” and it has an energy equivalent. In its narrow sense, the Landauer principle states that the erasure of one bit of information requires a minimum energy cost equal to k BT ln2, where ...
