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In this short note we reply to a comment by Callegaro et al. [1] (arXiv:2009.11709) that points out some weakness of the model of indeterministic physics that we proposed in Ref. [2] (Physical Review A, 100(6), p.062107), based on what we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Flavio Del Santo , Nicolas Gisin

Classical physics is generally regarded as deterministic, as opposed to quantum mechanics that is considered the first theory to have introduced genuine indeterminism into physics. We challenge this view by arguing that the alleged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Flavio Del Santo , Nicolas Gisin

In recent publications in physics and mathematics, concerns have been raised about the use of real numbers to describe quantities in physics, and in particular about the usual assumption that physical quantities are infinitely precise. In…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Tein van der Lugt

This article is a short review on the concept of information. We show the strong relation between Information Theory and Physics, beginning by the concept of bit and its representation with classical physical systems, and then going to the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 F. L. Marquezino , R. R. Mello Junior

A tradition handed down among physicists maintains that classical physics is a perfectly deterministic theory capable of predicting the future with absolute certainty, independently of any interpretations. It also tells that it was quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Flavio Del Santo

The question of what should be meant by a measurement is tackled from a mathematical perspective whose physical interpretation is that a measurement is a fundamental process via which a finite amount of classical information is produced.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Pedro Resende

In Brukner and Zeilinger's interpretation of quantum mechanics, information is introduced as the most fundamental notion and the finiteness of information is considered as an essential feature of quantum systems. They also define a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Afshin Shafiee , Feryal Safinejad , Farnoush Naqsh

Information is everywhere in nature which is very uncertain and unpredictable. But information, in itself, is a very ambiguous term. In this cursory write-up, we attempt to understand the formal meaning of information by quantifying…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Sagar Chakraborty

This work is a discussion on the concept of information. We define here information as an abstraction that is able to be copied. We consider the connection between the process of copying information in quantum systems and the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Marcin Ostrowski

We present the amounts of information, fidelity, and reversibility obtained by arbitrary quantum measurements on completely unknown states. These quantities are expressed as functions of the singular values of a measurement operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hiroaki Terashima

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Nicolas Gisin

According to the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness, consciousness is a fundamental observer-independent property of physical systems, and the measure Phi of integrated information is identical to the quantity or level of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-13 Adam B. Barrett , Pedro A. M. Mediano

The limited distinctness of physical systems is roughly expressed by uncertainty relations. Here we show distinctness is a finite resource we can exactly count to define basic physical quantities, limits to the resolution of space and time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Norman Margolus

To explain conceptual gap between classical/quantum and other, hypothetical descriptions of world, several principles has been proposed. So far, all these principles have not explicitly included the uncertainty relation. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 L. Czekaj , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

In this paper I propose a new principle in physics: the principle of "finiteness". It stems from the definition of physics as a science that deals (among other things) with measurable dimensional physical quantities. Since measurement…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Abraham Sternlieb

It is usual to identify initial conditions of classical dynamical systems with mathematical real numbers. However, almost all real numbers contain an infinite amount of information. I argue that a finite volume of space can't contain more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Nicolas Gisin

Every physical measuring needs a finite, different from zero measurement time and provides information in form of the choice of a measurement result from all possible measurement results. If infinitely many (different) measurement results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Orthuber

We offer a fresh perspective on the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics as a way of thinking about the world described by quantum theory based on quantifiable notions of information. This allows us to provide a definition of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Andrea Di Biagio , Carlo Rovelli

We discuss the notion about physical quantities as having values represented by real numbers, and its limiting to describe nature to be understood in relation to our appreciation that the quantum theory is a better theory of natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Otto C. W. Kong , Wei-Yin Liu

The possibility to describe the laws of the Universe in a computational way seems to be correlated to a principle that the density of information is bounded. This principle, that is dual to that of a finite velocity of information, has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek
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