2014/09/01 by William Edwards, Edwards, William · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.0271
29 pages, 13 figures
arxiv created 2014/09/01 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/01 · arxiv updated 2014/09/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Relational configurations are defined by the relationships between systems. Individualist configurations are defined by the properties of individual systems. Non-embeddable relational configurations are those for which there is no equivalent individualist description. We suggest that situations in physics where a spacetime description breaks down may be the result of trying to use individualist configurations to model non-embeddible relational configurations. We propose a particular example of a relational configuration space, the 2 instant relation (2IR), whose embeddible configurations describe particle worldlines in a background spacetime. We investigate the properties of these configurations.