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While I can think of exciting questions sparked by many different interpretations of quantum mechanics, I can't think of any for superdeterminism, for exactly t
by knzhou 7y ago
While I can think of exciting questions sparked by many different interpretations of quantum mechanics, I can't think of any for superdeterminism, for exactly the reasons I said -- it's scientifically dead from the start. Other ideas have limits, superdeterminism doesn't. Do you have a good example?
- npo9 7y agoIn Superdeterminism the obvious line of research is to look for hidden variables when we find things that are seemingly probabilistic or random. If we found hidden variables to control when a radioactive isotope will decay we could possibly have much safer handling of fission materials, depending on what these hypothetical hidden variables are. * I don’t have an opinion on Superdeterminism, I’m just thinking about hypotheticals out loud.
- knzhou 7y agoHidden variables would be cool. But there are plenty of hidden variable theories that aren't superdeterministic. My point is that if we all genuinely adopted the superdeterministic way of thinking and explaining, we wouldn't even do experiments in the first place.
- npo9 7y agoWouldn’t we? If Superdeterminism is correct than it wouldn’t be up to us if we continue to experiment. Maybe we are compelled to try to understand the world.