Einstein's ""true"" discontinuity. With an application to Zeno

Antonopoulos, C

dc.contributor.author	Antonopoulos, C	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:28:14Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:28:14Z
dc.date.issued	2008	en
dc.identifier.issn	0495-4548	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/18775
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dc.subject	Bohr	en
dc.subject	Discontinuity	en
dc.subject	Einstein	en
dc.subject	Indeterminacy	en
dc.subject	Infinite divisibility	en
dc.subject	Photons	en
dc.subject	Planck	en
dc.subject	Quanta	en
dc.subject	Quantized levels	en
dc.subject	Space	en
dc.subject	Zeno	en
dc.subject.classification	History & Philosophy Of Science	en
dc.title	Einstein's ""true"" discontinuity. With an application to Zeno	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.language	French	en
heal.publicationDate	2008	en
heal.abstract	The question whether quantum discontinuity can or cannot provide an answer to Zeno's Paradoxes is reopened. It is observed that what is usually understood by the term ""discontinuity"", namely, Einstein's conception of the photon as described by himself and all others, is unsuitable to the task because, essentially, it reduces to the trivial 'discontinuity' of objects scattered in space. By contrast, quantization of energy levels, which are not in space but can only alternate in time, provide the right sort of discontinuity required. Discrete quantized orbits, corresponding to eigen-frequencies, are irreducible, and nothing is allowed to stand in-between them in satisfaction of the quantum postulate, furnishing the requisite, and so far missing, immediate nextness of a point to a certain other. In this way, Zeno's Runner need not postpone his first step indefinitely, always waiting upon an infinity of preceding steps, before it can be taken. There is now a point that is next to a point and so a step on that point, which is the first step. It follows that, if one kind of discontinuity, Einstein's, is incapable of offerring an answer to Zeno, while another kind can, the two are discrepant One of them, the former, is not a kind of discontinuity properly so called at all, though evidendy the consequence of one.	en
heal.publisher	SERVICIO EDITORIAL UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO	en
heal.journalName	Theoria-Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000264382300006	en
dc.identifier.volume	23	en
dc.identifier.issue	63	en
dc.identifier.spage	339	en
dc.identifier.epage	349	en