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Published on: September 5, 2019
The Relativity of Indeterminacy
Flavio Del Santo1, Nicolas Gisin2,3
1Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna), Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
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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