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Causality and operationalism: from sets and functions to monads
When working in a laboratory, the most basic behaviour is to turn a knob or dial and then see a transformation of some data output. An example is increasing a magnetic field and seeing Zeeman ...
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Do Category Theory and/or Quantum Logic add value in physics?
I know they have their adherents, but do more or less esoteric branches of mathematics such as Category Theory and/or Quantum Logic provide powerful tools for new theory development or are they just ...
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What categorical mathematical structure(s) best describe the space of “localized events” in “relational quantum mechanics”?
In a recent (and to me, very enlightening) paper, entitled "Relational EPR", Smerlak and Rovelli present a way of thinking about EPR which relies upon Rovelli's previously published work on relational ...
