Physical unknowables

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2007-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701163v4

in "Kurt G\"odel and the Foundations of Mathematics," ed. by Matthias Baaz, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Hilary W. Putnam, Dana

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General Physics

Contribution to the international symposium "Horizons of Truth" celebrating the 100th birthday of Kurt Goedel, University of V

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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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