Superdeterminism: A Guide for the Perplexed

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01324v2
• Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:26:31 GMT
• Title: Superdeterminism: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Authors: Sabine Hossenfelder
• Abstract summary: Superdeterminism is the only known consistent description of nature that is local, deterministic, and can give rise to the observed correlations of quantum mechanics. I explain why superdeterminism is not a threat to science, is not necessarily finetuned, what the relevance of future input is, and what the open problems are.
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• Abstract: Superdeterminism is presently the only known consistent description of nature that is local, deterministic, and can give rise to the observed correlations of quantum mechanics. I here want to explain what makes this approach promising and offer the reader some advice for how to avoid common pitfalls. In particular, I explain why superdeterminism is not a threat to science, is not necessarily finetuned, what the relevance of future input is, and what the open problems are.

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