CERN Colloquium

Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory

Name: Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory
Start: 2013-03-21T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2013-03-21T17:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)

Thursday 21 Mar 2013, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. How can we reconcile these apparently conflicting observations, and what would John Bell have to say about them?

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Ignatios Antoniadis/PH-TH

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Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory

by Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN