Physical phenomena as sense determinate occurrences

Abstract

Abstract In the view of El Naschie’s E Infinity theory [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 22 (2004) 495], our physical laws emerge from a chaotic underground, a ‘Dirac-sea’. But we have no direct access from our observations to this chaotic world and this implies that the meaning of the correspondence between the phenomena we obtain by our cognition and their causal structures remains hidden to us. The fundamental process which produces our cognition is the ‘constitution of sense’. A formal description of this process will be presented. We use Dempster Shafer’s belief calculus to define ‘belief’ and motivate an Anticipation Principle: ‘Put the measurements obtained from the world in such an order that the credibility of your forecasts will be maximized.’ From this specification of the basic idea of what physical science ideally strives for, we are able to deduce a frame of reference for the formation of phenomena out of arbitrary sets of measurements. Reality is formed by these ‘observable phenomena’. In this emerging reality, we recognize characteristic effects and principles of modern physics: Einstein’s Postulate of Relativity, Entanglement, and the Quantum Zeno Effect. The presented view of reality is closely related to the ideas that had been presented hundred years ago by Ernst Mach and which recently J. Anandan generalized in his concept of a ‘Relational Reality’.