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Elegance, Facts, and Scientific Truths
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- I argue that scientific determinism is not supported by facts, but results from the elegance of the mathematical language physicists use, in particular from the so-called real numbers and their infinite series of digits. Classical physics can thus be interpreted in a deterministic or indeterministic way. However, using quantum physics, some experiments prove that nature is able to continually produce new information, hence support indeterminism in physics.<br />Comment: Original version in French, to appear in the proceedings of the "Colloque Exp\'erience et V\'erit\'e(s)" organized by the faculty of theology, Geneva University, September 3-4 2023
- Subjects :
- Quantum Physics
Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
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- Language :
- French
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2410.01279
- Document Type :
- Working Paper