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Relativity and Probability, Classical and Quantal

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The Concept of Probability

Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ((FTPH,volume 24))

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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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  1. University of Ioannina, Greece

    E. I. Bitsakis

  2. National Hellenic Research Foundation and National Technical University, Athens, Greece

    C. A. Nicolaides

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Costa de Beauregard, O. (1989). Relativity and Probability, Classical and Quantal. In: Bitsakis, E.I., Nicolaides, C.A. (eds) The Concept of Probability. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1175-8_29

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