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Entropic Inference and the Foundations of Physics

By ARIEL , Caticha

Book information

Publisher
International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Year
2012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1158369 bytes)
Pages
293\293
Topic
Physics
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2015-06-24 14:00:12
Физика;Матметоды и моделирование в физике

Description

Science consists in using information about the world for the purpose of predicting, explaining, understanding, and/or controlling phenomena of interest. The basic dfficulty is that the available information is usually insufficient to attain any of those goals with certainty. A central concern in these lectures will be the problem of inductive inference, that is, the problem of reasoning under conditions of incomplete information. Our goal is twofold. First, to develop the main tools for inference - probability and entropy - and to demonstrate their use. And second, to demonstrate their importance for physics. More specifically our goal is to clarify the conceptual foundations of physics by deriving the fundamental laws of statistical mechanics and of quantum mechanics as examples of inductive inference. Perhaps all physics can be derived in this way.

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