Elegance, Facts, and Scientific Truths
Quantum Physics
2024-10-03 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
I argue that scientific determinism is not supported by facts, but results from the elegance of the mathematical language physicists use, in particular from the so-called real numbers and their infinite series of digits. Classical physics can thus be interpreted in a deterministic or indeterministic way. However, using quantum physics, some experiments prove that nature is able to continually produce new information, hence support indeterminism in physics.
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@article{arxiv.2410.01279,
title = {Elegance, Facts, and Scientific Truths},
author = {Nicolas Gisin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01279},
year = {2024}
}
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Original version in French, to appear in the proceedings of the "Colloque Exp\'erience et V\'erit\'e(s)" organized by the faculty of theology, Geneva University, September 3-4 2023