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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Title: Self-Referential Noise as a Fundamental Aspect of Reality

Authors: Reginald T. Cahill, Christopher M. Klinger (Department of Physics, Flinders University)
Abstract: Noise is often used in the study of open systems, such as in classical Brownian motion and in Quantum Dynamics, to model the influence of the environment. However generalising results from G\"{o}del and Chaitin in mathematics suggests that systems that are sufficiently rich that self-referencing is possible contain intrinsic randomness. We argue that this is relevant to modelling the universe, even though it is by definition a closed system. We show how a three-dimensional process-space may arise, as a Prigogine dissipative structure, from a non-geometric order-disorder model driven by, what is termed, self-referential noise.
Comments: 7 pages, Latex, 3 ps figures. Contribution to the 2nd International Conference on Unsolved Problems of Noise, Adelaide 1999
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Journal reference: Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Unsolved Problems of Noise and Fluctuations (UPON 99), eds. D. Abbott and L. Kish, Adelaide, Australia, 11-15th July 1999, Vol. 511, p.43, American Institute of Physics, New York, 2000
DOI: 10.1063/1.60018
Cite as: arXiv:gr-qc/9905082
  (or arXiv:gr-qc/9905082v1 for this version)

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