Time and classical and quantum mechanics: Indeterminacy versus discontinuity

Foundations of Physics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-355

  Lynds, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chronons; Classical and quantum mechanics; Cosmology; Imaginary time; Indeterminacy vs. discontinuity; Relativity; Time; Zeno's paradoxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041378154     PISSN: 08949875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025361725408     Document Type: Article

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