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If such a fundamental theory appeared and, say, showed that quantum probabilities are merely emergent from a deeper, almost “informationally deterministic”, law
by rconstant1 1y ago
If such a fundamental theory appeared and, say, showed that quantum probabilities are merely emergent from a deeper, almost “informationally deterministic”, law—my first reaction would be both awe and pragmatic excitement. But my essential question would be:
How does the new framework make concrete, falsifiable contact with measurement?
In other words: Does it yield unmistakable, testable consequences in the way we extract information from experiments—not just new field equations or mathematically elegant objects?
I’ve devoted my own research (see https://github.com/rconstant1/metrologie-entropique-constantinis/blob/main/nature-entropic-measurement.md https://github.com/rconstant1/metrologie-entropique-constant... ) to this question of measurement-as-bias-correction:
Instead of seeing quantum uncertainty or bias in data as “annoying noise”, I treat it as an informational clue to what’s truly fundamental.
If the new theory makes quantum randomness deterministic below the surface, then measurement outcomes (and their entropic corrections) become the direct probes of this “hidden layer”.
So the recipe for revolutionary science would be:
Propose your elegant new equation.
Show exactly how any experiment’s entropic bias or uncertainty will shift in the new theory—compared to the old one.
Publish the “statistical procedure” for experimenters: what concrete bias-corrections or informational signatures should they hunt for, in atomic clocks, cosmological surveys, or particle beams, that Einstein/Bohr did not predict?
If quantum processes turn out to be deterministic under the hood, “entropy” and “bias correction” will be the microscopes, not the obstacles, to seeing the new reality.
Ultimately, what would revolutionize science isn’t just a new equation, but a new attitude toward measurement —where information theory, uncertainty, and bias quantification become our main laboratory tools to find cracks in today’s deepest laws.
Would love to see foundational theorists and experimentalists collaborate on this directly—not just for gravity or quantum, but for all of science.
(PS: If any theorists or experimentalists want to brainstorm practical protocols that could reveal “hidden determinism,” DM or comment!)