Re: Which mathematical structure -is- the universe in Physics?

From: Brian Tenneson <tennesb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:08:16 -0700

I was skimming though a book by Roberto Cignoli, Itala D'Ottaviano, and
Daniele Mundici called Algebraic Foundations of Many-Valued Reasoning.

Recall that I conjectured that the Physicist's universe has an
MV-algebra structure. I probably should have said that the Physicist's
universe is the category of all MV-algebras, or some such.

In this book I'm studying, I have lifted some facts which might prove
interesting when settling my conjecture (which obviously might be as
insignificant as the conjecture 0+1=1).



 From book:
Let A be the category of l-groups (lattice-ordered Abelean groups) with
a strong distinguished unit.

Let M be the category of MV-algebras. (I think a briefer way to say that
would be "let M be MV-algebra".)





OK, now... Chapter 7 of the aforementioned book has as its goal proving
the following statement:
There is a natural equivalence between A and M, meaning that there is a
functor, call it F, between A and M. In other words, between A and M,
there is a full, faithful, and dense functor F.





Thus another way to state my conjecture is this:
The universe is an (or at least has the structure of an) l-group with a
strong distinguished unit. Does this ring any bells with physicists?
What, "physically" or observably, is this strong distinguished unit, if so?

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