ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Fundamental Limits of Quantum Mechanics and Physical Laws in a Non-deterministic World
Quantum mechanics is fundamentally different from all that came before in almost every aspect. But, as far as I can see now, there is one property that stands above all when we try to understand what quantum mechanics is all about: quantum mechanics is our first theory of Nature that is non-deterministic at a fundamental level. Long considered an unpleasant aspect, non-determinism is anything but: Non-determinism enables new freedoms. Phenomena that could not occur in deterministic theories because they would violate some basic laws of nature become possible in non-deterministic theories, under the cover of randomness. A famous example is nonlocality. In a deterministic world, if something…
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