Quantum Relativity: A Synthesis of the Ideas of Einstein and Heisenberg

by David Ritz Finkelstein

Author presents a simple algebraic quantum language sharpening and deepening that of Bohr, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, with its own epistemology, model structure, and convectives. Quantum theory.

Genres: Physics

577 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1995

About the author

David Ritz Finkelstein was an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. David Finkelstein was the first, in 1958, who identified Schwarzschild's solution of the Einstein field equations as corresponding to a region in space from which nothing escapes. Most of Finkelstein's work is directed toward a quantum theory of space-time structure. He early on accepted the conclusion of John von Neumann that anomalies of quantum mechanical measurement are anomalies of the logic of quantum mechanical systems. Therefore, he formed quantum analogues of set theory, the standard language for classical space-time structures, and proposed that space-time is a quantum set of space-time quanta dubbed "chronons", a form of quantum computer with spins for quantum bits, as a quantum version of the cellular automaton of von Neumann. His early quantum space-times proving unphysical, he later studied chronons with a regularized form of Bose–Einstein statistics due to Tchavdar D. Palev.
He also put forward an in-depth interpretation of the engraving Melencolia I of Albrecht Dürer.