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Judith,
I found it because
I habitually roam the ArXiv site looking for interesting new papers. After
reading it, I Google'd it to see if it had been published elsewhere or if
there were responses to it. I did not see any such references. But then
again, it is still quite new.
I suspect he
published it on arXiv because it is rather speculative. This may be one of
those ideas that is so novel it needs to get some discussion and support
from others before a peer-review journal might look at it. I think he does
have some idea of what it means for physics - at least, for quantum
physics.
Ghorbanzadeh is an
Assoc. Prof. of Physics at the Sharif Univ. of Technology (Tehran) and as
far as I can find he has been a co-author of two English-language
peer-review papers (both on ferromagnetics). There is as yet no CV
listed:
I thought you
might find it interesting for the BioTheory issue on Time. It's probably too
late, but that's the problem with time. :)
Regards,
Tim
I'd be curious to know how this paper is being received. Has it
been published anywhere else besides that webpage? How did you find
it?
The reason I'm asking is because he basically says all the same
stuff my father has been saying: That the limited view was what was
responsible for the paradoxical behavior of our models and the reasons why
applications based on those models cause so many unintended side-effects in
real systems. But does A.M. Ghorbanzadeh talk about what this means for
physics?
The picture he uses in his illustration is a good one. It
reminds me of a famous painting that was done before motion pictures were
invented. I'll have to search out the name of the artist and the name of the
painting...It's of a little dachshund-like dog with very short legs, being
taken for a walk on a leash, and its legs are blurred in all running positions
at once, conveying the idea of motion; that it's running madly to keep up
with its long-legged human. The illustration Ghorbanzadeh uses of a cat in the
same place but all different times, is similar: it conveys that "real time" is
not static and that any "present" is more than a singularity. To stop time and
do a measurement is artificial, so the equations collapse just as a living
organism collapses down to physical structure when you "stop time"
(fractionate time out of its organization).
Judith
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