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I remember when this came out I found it less than satisfying. Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics, and those axioms are not physical. Rovelli's earlier id
by scottlocklin 11y ago
I remember when this came out I found it less than satisfying. Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics, and those axioms are not physical.
Rovelli's earlier ideas are mathematically equivalent, far more physical and come closer to answering some real questions.
http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002 http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
- DennisP 11y ago"the theory describes only the information that systems have about each other"...it's almost tempting to see it as the universe's solution to a distributed systems problem.
- j2kun 11y agoFor mathematicians like me it's great, though. I personally wonder if anyone can really understand physical laws until they're expressed in pure mathematical language.