Relativity and Probability, Classical and Quantal

  • O. Costa de Beauregard
Conference paper
Part of the Fundamental Theories of Physics book series (FTPH, volume 24)

Abstract

A ’manifestly relativistic’ presentation of Laplace’s algebra of conditional probabilities is proposed, and its ’correspondence’ with Dirac’s algebra of quantal transition amplitudes is displayed. The algebraic reversibility of these is classically tantamount to time reversal, or ’T-in variance’, and quan tally to ’CPT-in variance’. This is closely related to the de jure reversibility of the ⇄ negentropy information transition, although de facto the upper arrow prevails aver the lower one (Second Law).

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Conditional Probability Physical Review Jordan Algebra Feynman Graph Shaped Diagram 
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