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The relativity of indeterminacy

Quantum Physics 2021-11-03 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology History and Philosophy of Physics

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 as well be regarded as a relational 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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@article{arxiv.2101.04134,
  title  = {The relativity of indeterminacy},
  author = {Flavio Del Santo and Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04134},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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