The Relativity of Indeterminacy |
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Authors: | Flavio Del Santo Nicolas Gisin |
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Institution: | 1.Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna), Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria;2.Department of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland;3.Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), 1211 Geneva, Switzerland |
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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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Keywords: | fundamental indeterminism special relativity finite information |
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