PIRSA:21060106

God does not play dice (He plays sudoku)

APA

Adlam, E. (2021). God does not play dice (He plays sudoku). Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21060106

MLA

Adlam, Emily. God does not play dice (He plays sudoku). Perimeter Institute, Jun. 17, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21060106

BibTex

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21060106,
            doi = {10.48660/21060106},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21060106},
            author = {Adlam, Emily},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
            language = {en},
            title = {God does not play dice (He plays sudoku)},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:21060106 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Emily Adlam Basic Research Community for Physics

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Abstract

I argue that modern physics gives us good reason to take seriously the possibility of laws which are non-local, global, or in some other way non-dynamical. I set out a general framework for lawhood which does not presuppose the standard kinematical/dynamical split, and I apply it to the problem of giving a generalized definition of determinism for the non-dynamical context. Finally I make some suggestions about how to draw conclusions about the global structure of the laws of nature from the local observations we are able to make.