Avoiding infinite masses

Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia

pp. 21-31

in: Synthese 156 (1), 2007.

Abstract

The examples of dynamic supertasks analyzed to date in the philosophical literature, in which both determinism and the classical laws of conservation of energy and momentum are violated, all share the important limitation of requiring material systems of infinite mass. This paper demonstrates that this limitation is not necessary. This has important consequences for the scope and meaning of such violations.