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Non-local beables

Quantum Physics 2015-07-31 v1

Abstract

I discuss the idea that the beables underlying quantum physics are non-local and relational, and give an example of a dynamical theory of such beables based on a matrix model, which is the bosonic sector of the BFSS model. Given that the same model has been proposed as a description of M theory, this shows that quantum mechanics may be emergent from a theory of gravity from which space is also emergent.

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@article{arxiv.1507.08576,
  title  = {Non-local beables},
  author = {Lee Smolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08576},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages LeTex. Submission to the John Bell Workshop 2014, of the International Journal of Quantum Foundations

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