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Superdeterminism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Quantum Physics 2020-10-07 v2

Abstract

Superdeterminism is presently the only known consistent description of nature that is local, deterministic, and can give rise to the observed correlations of quantum mechanics. I here want to explain what makes this approach promising and offer the reader some advice for how to avoid common pitfalls. In particular, I explain why superdeterminism is not a threat to science, is not necessarily finetuned, what the relevance of future input is, and what the open problems are.

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@article{arxiv.2010.01324,
  title  = {Superdeterminism: A Guide for the Perplexed},
  author = {Sabine Hossenfelder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01324},
  year   = {2020}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure, reference added

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