How Does God Play Dice? (Pre-)Determinism at the Planck Scale
Abstract
In deterministic theories, one can start from a set of ontological states to formulate the dynamical laws, but these may not be directly observable. Observable are only equivalence classes of states, and these will span a basis of "beables", to be promoted to an orthonormal basis of Hilbert Space. After transforming this basis to a more conventional basis, a theory may result that is fundamentally quantum mechanical. It is conjectured that the quantum laws of the real world may be understood from exactly such a procedure.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2001
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0104219
- Bibcode:
- 2001hep.th....4219T
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- An Essay in honour of John S. Bell. 8 pages TeX, no figures