On Undecidability and the Laws of Physics

Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2015

Van Heusden, Erik F.G.^1

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

1090 GL, Netherlands^1

关键词: Empirical model;    Fundamental physics;    Laws of physics;    Undecidability;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/701/1/012025/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/701/1/012025

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

We argue that insights in fundamental physics could be provided by fields such as mathematical logic, and, as an example, briefly discuss some of the issues that arise from the incompleteness theorems. The advantage of this type of approach would be that it could perhaps give access to information about physics at the most fundamental level, without having to rely on increasingly accurate although always approximate empirical models alone.