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| contents | <div> <div> <div> <p>The Standard Model of particle physics—our best, current under- standing of the universe—is normally specified as a Lagrangian density, evaluated via the machinery of quantum field theory. We propose to recast it in the language of structural operational seman- tics (SOS)—the formalism that underpins programming language theory and process calculi. In this view, particles are processes, in- teraction vertices become inference rules, and amplitudes decoratetransitions. Probabilities emerge by applying the Born rule to deriva- tions. This reformulation does not alter physics, but it rephrases the Standard Model as a probabilistic process calculus, making it amenable to the full toolbox of computer science semantics. We sketch preliminary SOS rules for QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) and issue an open invitation: if the events of the universe unfold as computation, then the Standard Model is essentially its programming language:</p> <p>The Universal Calculus</p> <p>and computer scientists are, in fact, (already) uniquely equipped to reason about it through half a century of experience with all kinds of (abstract) computational models.</p> </div> </div> </div> |
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| spellingShingle | The Semantics of the Universe Itself: Towards a Computational Perception of the Unfolding of Events Brabrand, Claus Quantum physics <div> <div> <div> <p>The Standard Model of particle physics—our best, current under- standing of the universe—is normally specified as a Lagrangian density, evaluated via the machinery of quantum field theory. We propose to recast it in the language of structural operational seman- tics (SOS)—the formalism that underpins programming language theory and process calculi. In this view, particles are processes, in- teraction vertices become inference rules, and amplitudes decoratetransitions. Probabilities emerge by applying the Born rule to deriva- tions. This reformulation does not alter physics, but it rephrases the Standard Model as a probabilistic process calculus, making it amenable to the full toolbox of computer science semantics. We sketch preliminary SOS rules for QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) and issue an open invitation: if the events of the universe unfold as computation, then the Standard Model is essentially its programming language:</p> <p>The Universal Calculus</p> <p>and computer scientists are, in fact, (already) uniquely equipped to reason about it through half a century of experience with all kinds of (abstract) computational models.</p> </div> </div> </div> |
| title | The Semantics of the Universe Itself: Towards a Computational Perception of the Unfolding of Events |
| topic | Quantum physics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17227540 |