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The Relativity of Indeterminacy
A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the advent of (special) relativity—with its block-universe picture—as the failure of any indeterministic program in physics. On the contrary, in this paper, we note that upholding reasonable pri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535112/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34682050 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23101326 |
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description | A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the advent of (special) relativity—with its block-universe picture—as the failure of any indeterministic program in physics. On the contrary, in this paper, we note that upholding reasonable principles of finiteness of information hints at a picture of the physical world that should be both relativistic and indeterministic. We thus rebut the block-universe picture by assuming that fundamental indeterminacy itself should also be regarded as a relative property when considered in a relativistic scenario. We discuss the consequence that this view may have when correlated randomness is introduced, both in the classical case and in the quantum one. |
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spelling | pubmed-85351122021-10-23 The Relativity of Indeterminacy Del Santo, Flavio Gisin, Nicolas Entropy (Basel) Article A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the advent of (special) relativity—with its block-universe picture—as the failure of any indeterministic program in physics. On the contrary, in this paper, we note that upholding reasonable principles of finiteness of information hints at a picture of the physical world that should be both relativistic and indeterministic. We thus rebut the block-universe picture by assuming that fundamental indeterminacy itself should also be regarded as a relative property when considered in a relativistic scenario. We discuss the consequence that this view may have when correlated randomness is introduced, both in the classical case and in the quantum one. MDPI 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8535112/ /pubmed/34682050 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23101326 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Del Santo, Flavio Gisin, Nicolas The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title | The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title_full | The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title_fullStr | The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title_short | The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
title_sort | relativity of indeterminacy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535112/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34682050 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23101326 |
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