The
December 2012 issue of scientific American has an informative article on
the work and essays sponsored by the Foundational Questions Institute. http://www.fqxi.org/
David Tong-a theoretical physicist-wrote an article on the topic of the quanta of the smallest scale as digital or continuous. That's a philosophically interesting topic. Foundational questions have been philosophically pursued since people were able to think.
A
friend of Albert Einstein named Paul Ehrenfrest explained why mass
could appear stable and coherent in just three dimensions of space.
There seems to be an infinite potential to consider the metaphysics that
are possible beyond the physics of the phenomenal Universe (1).
David Tong-a theoretical physicist-wrote an article on the topic of the quanta of the smallest scale as digital or continuous. That's a philosophically interesting topic. Foundational questions have been philosophically pursued since people were able to think.
Today
one wonders not only about mass, but about dimensions and the
philosophy of dimensions. Is their
are an infinite number. If their is just one source hyper-dimension
comparable to a Higgs field is that hyper-dimension infinitely
divisible,
or how dimensions connect together? How can one dimension be anything
besides a
dot singularity of infinitely small size? If a dimension fails to expand
tied
into some field does it remain at a particular one-dimensional size? How
would
anything with one dimension have direction or size?
Physicists
theoretically study mass with math constructs such as appear in
'Calibi-Yau eleven dimensional space' etc.in order to design structures
that would account for the mass order and quantum physical structures
supporting the observable universe yet that seems an arbitrary and
phenomenal selection of dimensions.
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