Timeline for Deterministic quantum mechanics
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 19:43 | history | edited | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 388 characters in body |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 0:45 | comment | added | Anixx | By the way if you asked a person some centuries ago what would he prefer - undetermined, random fate and unconnected world or underlying connections of the all things with determined fate he would prefere the later. | |
| Dec 26, 2011 at 9:44 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | @Harry: String theory is nonlocal, not in the sense of sending signals between two points faster than light, but in the sense that space and time are emergent, so that two nearby points are smeared over a big far-away null surface holographically to big overlapping disks, and even the most local null-surface dynamics are massively nonlocal. This holographic nonlocality is not even describable in terms of 'stuff here' and 'stuff there' so you can't say whether the signal moves faster than light really, because it was always everywhere. | |
| Dec 26, 2011 at 5:31 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | @Ron, is string theory really nonlocal in this sense? Presumably you can't, for example, use a really long string to send a signal faster than light? | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 23:12 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | The point is that physics has abandoned locality with holographic principle and string theory, but physics has not come to an end. In fact, the nonlocal theories are more tightly constrained than the local ones. In this atmosphere, it is legitimate to revisit hidden variables, to see if they make sense. t'Hooft is not looking for an interpretation of quantum mechanics, but a new theory, which can replace it. The new theory must have an interpretation as real stuff changing deterministically, and the QM is just informational superstructure on top of this. I don't think his idea works, it might. | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 22:55 | history | edited | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 82 characters in body |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 18:09 | history | answered | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |