A handful of physicists bring to life a forbidden concept, super determinism. Superdeterminism is thought to make sense in the quantum realm, suggesting that it’s not as random as it seems, but critics say it undermines the foundation of all of science.
Sabine Hüssinfelder, a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany, studies the concept. The idea he’s studying is related to the biggest puzzle of quantum theory, that is, what happens when the indefinite and boundless quantum world is distilled into something specific, something we experience as truth. Is the result of this formation completely random as the theory suggests?
Albert Einstein had no doubt: he argued that God does not risk the universe.
Hossenfelder tends to agree with him. Now a few physicists are stirring up controversy by trying to revive the concept of a non-random deterministic where effects always have a cause. It is said that anomalies of quantum physics arise only because we have a limited view of the quantum world.
According to Albert Einstein, quantum mechanics is not wrong in its field of validity, but it is also not complete, because something is missing from quantum theory that describes the property of a particle if we do not just discover it. Albert Einstein called the so-called quantum focus a strange effect of distance.
Superdeterminism will not only make sense of quantum theory a century after it was conceived. It could also provide a solution to combine quantum theory and relativity to create the ultimate theory of the universe. However, many theorists insist that superdeterminism is the most dangerous concept in physics. They argue that taking its effects seriously undermines all of science.
The Bell test confirmed the frightening distance effect in 1964. Superdetermining says Howard Wiseman, a physicist at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, to explain the Bell correlation that it is impossible for a universe in which the hidden variables are the same as in the experimental photons. He thinks this is all a big conspiracy. According to Wiseman, super-determinism would undermine human free will and render science meaningless. One may undermine free will because super determinism violates statistical independence. That is, modifying the experiment input should not change anything in the setup device to detect the output. The problem of free will arises from the fact that in the Bell test, the experimenter must be able to set up the experiment as he pleases. According to super determinism, this is not possible because there is a ulterior compulsion.
There is definitely no conspiracy, says Oxford University physicist Tim Palmer. The problem is that people see the fine tuning because they use bad math. Physicists assume that the foundations of the universe are formed in a linear way, but they can be very chaotic, in which case linear equations will not work.
There is no prospect of agreement, and progress is slow because so few physicists work on superdeterminism.
(Source: New World)
