David Ritz Finkelstein

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David Ritz Finkelstein


Born
in New York City, The United States
July 19, 1929

Died
January 24, 2016


David Ritz Finkelstein was an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. David Finkelstein was the first, in 1958, who identified Schwarzschild's solution of the Einstein field equations as corresponding to a region in space from which nothing escapes. Most of Finkelstein's work is directed toward a quantum theory of space-time structure. He early on accepted the conclusion of John von Neumann that anomalies of quantum mechanical measurement are anomalies of the logic of quantum mechanical systems. Therefore, he formed quantum analogues of set theory, the standard language for classical space-time structures, and proposed that space-time is a quantum set of space-time quanta dubbed "chronons", a form of quantum co ...more

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