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Computational Space, Time and Quantum Mechanics

Computational Space, Time and Quantum Mechanics
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Author(s): Michael Nicolaidis (TIMA Laboratory (CNRS, Grenoble INP, UJF), France)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 27
Source title: Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jordi Vallverdú (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-014-2.ch016

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Abstract

We start this chapter by introducing an ultimate limit of knowledge: as observers that are part of the universe we have no access on information concerning the fundamental nature of the elementary entities (particles) composing the universe but only on information concerning their behaviour. Then, we use this limit to develop a vision of the universe in which the behaviour of particles is the result of a computation-like process (not in the restricted sense of Turing machine) performed by meta-objects and in which space and time are also engendered by this computation. In this vision, the structure of space-time (e.g. Galilean, Lorentzian, …) is determined by the form of the laws of interactions, important philosophical questions related with the space-time structure of special relativity are resolved, the contradiction between the non-locality of quantum systems and the reversal of the temporal order of events (encountered in special relativity when we change inertial frames) is conciliated, and the “paradoxes” related with the “strange” behaviour of quantum systems (non-determinism, quantum superposition, non-locality) are resolved.

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