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Swansea University
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Article title
Limits to measurement in experiments governed by algorithms
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
Article number
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Volume number
20
Issue number
06
First page of article
1019
ISSN of journal
0960-1295
Year of publication
2010
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Number of additional authors
2
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<10> The theory of measurement begins with Helmholtz in 1887. This is the first paper to give an algorithmic theory of measurement based upon experiments controlled by algorithms: the process of performing an experiment is modelled by a Turing machine. This reveals that (i) an experiment’s duration depends upon the precision of measurement; (ii) there are quantities in classical experiments that cannot be measured for logical reasons. The paper led to work on time in axiomatic measurement theory and refutes seminal 1984 speculations by Geroch and Hartle on the computability of physical constarnts (Foundations of Physics 16 (1986) 533-550).
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Research group
A - Theoretical Computer Science
Citation count
5
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