Sunday, May 22, 2022

Causality, Time and the Experiment Paradox

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Recorded: 2022/03/21 Released: 2022/05/22

Jim talks to Michal Eckstein of the Coperincus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on how two different ways to order events, that of chronology (this comes before that) and causality (this makes that happen) come together to define time. We then go on to discuss the Experiment Paradox, which pulls together a number of measurement paradoxes in physics.
------------------------------------------- Notes:

1. Michal Eckstein's articles we discussed in this program:
2. Michal Eckstein's articles that we discussed in this program:
  • Ehlers, J., F.A.E. Pirani, A. Schild, “The Geometry of Free Fall and Light Propagation [2012 Republication].” General Relativity: Papers in Honour of J. L. Synge, 63. (1972).
  • Linnemann, N. and J. Read, "Constructive Axiomatics in Spacetime Physics Part I: Walkthrough to the Ehlers-Pirani-Schild Axiomatisation" (2021). [arXiv]
  • Minguzzi, E. and M. Sanchez, "The Causal Heirarchy of Space Times." Recent Developments in Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry, 299 (2008). [arXiv]
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