Del Santo, Flavio and Gisin, Nicolas (2021) The relativity of indetermininacy. [Preprint]

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Abstract

A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the
advent of (special) relativity –with its block-universe picture– as the failure of any indeterministic program in
physics. On the contrary, in this paper, we note that upholding reasonable principles of finiteness of information
hints at a picture of the physical world that should be both relativistic and indeterministic. We thus rebut
the block-universe picture by assuming that fundamental indeterminacy itself should as well be regarded as a
relational property when considered in a relativistic scenario. We discuss the consequence that this view may
have when correlated randomness is introduced, both in the classical case and in the quantum one.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Del Santo, Flavio Gisin, Nicolas Nicolas.Gisin@unige.ch 0000-0003-0788-3494
Keywords:	determinism indeterminism relativity finite information
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Prof. Nicolas Gisin
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2021 05:11
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2021 05:11
Item ID:	18601
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	January 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18601

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