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| name = Christopher M. Klinger<br />
| fields = Theoretical physics<br />
| workplaces = Flinders University<br />
| known_for = Process physics; "Bootstrap Universe from Self-Referential Noise"<br />
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'''Christopher M. Klinger''' is a researcher known for his work with physicist Reginald T. Cahill on a pregeometric, information-based model of cosmology sometimes called "process physics." He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.<br />
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==Work==<br />
Working with Reg Cahill at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), Klinger co-authored a series of papers proposing that space and time are not fundamental but emerge from an underlying non-geometric, self-organising process. In "Bootstrap Universe from Self-Referential Noise" (1997) and "Self-Referential Noise and the Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Space" (published in ''General Relativity and Gravitation''), the authors generalise results of Gödel and Chaitin on self-referential systems to argue that such systems contain intrinsic randomness, which they term "self-referential noise." They propose that this noise drives an order–disorder process from which three-dimensional space and a "richer than geometric" notion of time emerge, aiming to overcome what they call the "end-game problem" of purely formal models of reality.<br />
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These ideas developed into the "process physics" program associated with Cahill, and were later republished in ''Progress in Physics''. The work lies outside the mainstream of theoretical physics and cosmology.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9708013 "Bootstrap Universe from Self-Referential Noise" (arXiv)]<br />
* [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1001984518976 "Self-Referential Noise and the Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Space" (General Relativity and Gravitation)]<br />
* [http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/issues.html Progress in Physics (journal issues)]<br />
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