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arxiv: physics/0701163 · v4 · pith:YR3I4I5Wnew · submitted 2007-01-15 · ⚛️ physics.gen-ph

Physical unknowables

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keywords physicalunknowableschaoticcomplementarityderiveddiscusseddynamicalevents
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A variety of physical unknowables are discussed. Provable lack of physical omniscience, omnipredictability and omnipotence is derived by reduction to problems which are known to be recursively unsolvable. "Chaotic" symbolic dynamical systems are unstable with respect to variations of initial states. Quantum unknowables include the random occurrence of single events, complementarity and value indefiniteness.

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