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View SchemaCausation & Physics
| Authors | Cynthia K. W. Ma |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9906061 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906061 |
| DOI | 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(200005)48:5/7<689::AID-PROP689>3.0.CO;2-H |
| Journal | Fortsch.Phys. 48 (2000) 689-699 |
Abstract
Philosophical analyses of causation take many forms but one major difficulty they all aim to address is that of the spatio-temporal continuity between causes and their effects. Bertrand Russell in 1913 brought the problem to its most transparent form and made it a case against the notion of causation in physics. In this essay, I focus on this subject of causal continuity and its related issues in classical and quantum physics.
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