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Curious and sublime: the connection between uncertainty and probability in physics

Author(s) -

Harvey R. Brown

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074

H-Index - 169

eISSN - 1471-2962

pISSN - 1364-503X

DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2011.0075

Subject(s) - connection (principal bundle) , interpretation (philosophy) , theoretical physics , sublime , physics , probability theory , statistical physics , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , statistics , linguistics , aesthetics

From its first significant appearance in physics, the notion of probability has been linked in the minds of physicists with the notion of uncertainty. But the link may prove to be tenuous, if quantum mechanics, construed in terms of the Everett interpretation, is anything to go by.

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