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The Texture of Space-Time

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The Theory of Indistinguishables

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In the last chapter I proposed correlations for the families D0 and D1 and for the initial Sorts of other families; the conclusion was that, taken together, these rational Sorts imply the physical existence of a structure which I called U, to which we could attach a few of the properties associated with space-time, notwithstanding its essentially discrete character. In this chapter I shall turn to consider the only infinite rational Sort which has a legitimate bearing on empirical matters D∞0, and with its help I shall elucidate further the structure of space-time, to the point where its more familiar features appear, together with others less familiar, not to say bizarre.

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© 1981 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Parker-Rhodes, A.F. (1981). The Texture of Space-Time. In: The Theory of Indistinguishables. Synthese Library, vol 150. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8401-1_10

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