Recent results from high-energy scattering and theoretical developments of string theory require a change in our understanding of the basic structure of space-time. This book is about the advancement of ideas on the stochastic nature of space-time from the 1930s onward. In particular, the author promotes the concept of space as a set of hazy lumps, first introduced by Karl Menger, and constructs a novel framework for statistical behaviour at the microlevel. The various chapters address topics such as space-time fluctuation and random potential, non-local fields, and the origin of stochasticity. Implications in astro-particle physics and cosmology are also explored.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to physicists, chemists and mathematicians involved in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

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`... of interest to physicists, mathematicians and chemists interested in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.pb'
Zentralblatt MATH, 929 (2000)

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Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

Sisir Roy

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Book Title: Statistical Geometry and Applications to Microphysics and Cosmology
Authors: Sisir Roy
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5230-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4907-5Published: 31 January 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6201-5Published: 08 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5230-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 251
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Applications of Mathematics

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