Lexicographic systems

✍ Scribed by Rajeev Kohli

• Book ID: 101275025
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 286 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-2787
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199903/04)4:4<15::aid-cplx3>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

Dictionaries, just like ordered lists of numbers, can be expressed as the readings of clocks. The latter representation, together with the observation that dictionaries describe such basic structures as protons and neutrons, the chemical elements, and amino acids and proteins, suggests a possible relation between the wave equations in physics and a lexicographic arrangement of time, energy, and distance. Elementary aspects of quantum theory, including the wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, are interpreted in this context.