Principia Quantica. An annotated counterfactual Newton
Abstract
The fused Principia text is a piece of historical science-fiction: it asks what it would look like if Newton, while remaining Newton, leaned harder on his polygonal constructions and on the (already interference-like) evidence in the Opticks (Newton’s rings; “fits of easy reflection and transmission”), and then treated the smooth curve as an emergent approximation rather than the foundation. This version include auxiliary documents used in the last phase of the composition.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Historical Philosophy and Science
History and Theory of Mathematics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 26 February 2026
- Language
- EN