On Dimensionality and Continuity of Physical Space and Time

Abramenko, B.

doi:10.1093/bjps/ix.34.89

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“…"An idea suggests itself that the elementary quantum of action has something to do with discrete structure of the world, and with the elementary and irreducible quantum of spacetime." 13 The connection suggested here between Planck's quantum of action and discrete spacetime raises the possibility that all elementary particles and all quantum phenomena may be explainable in some way by appeal to the discrete structure of spacetime, and this in turn raises the possibility that some of the diversity of present-day particle physics might be eliminated under the unifying influence of a discrete conception of the spacetime manifold. 14 Current work on quantization of the gravitational field is the most recent outcome of this trend.…”

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Transition and Contradiction

MCKIE¹

1992

Philosophica

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Due largely to. the contemporary interest in paraconsistent logic, the fourteenth-century incipit/desinit(begins/ceases) problem has recently been revived in new form.l Like Zeno's paradoxes of motion, to which it is closely related, this problem is easier to state than to resolve: is an object in motion or at rest at the instant of change? Consider the following possible answers to this question:(1) The object is at rest but not in motion.(2) The object is in motion but not at rest.(3) The object is neither at rest nor in motion. (4) The object is both at rest and in motion.

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Section: IIImentioning

confidence: 89%