A new theory in quantum physics does away with all the "scientific" quantum woo about collapsing wave functions and whatever. The prize? There is no free will. Anywhere in the universe. Indeed, even the measurements which supposedly prove the collapse of the wave function were determined at the Big Bang! LOL. But apparently, free will doesn´t exist in the classical interpretation either. So there´s that.
Sabine´s main problem with the new theory (proposed by a Nobel Prize winner but largely ignored by his quantum-determined colleagues) is that it proposes strange new "cellular automata" as the ontological entities underlying all of Reality. Apparently, the automata don´t fit very well with the more reasonable portions of Einstein´s theories. Interestingly, however, the existence of the "automata" can be falsified.
According to Hooft, we will never be able to build quantum computers above a certain threshold of efficiency. So presumbly a young tech geek could disprove this TOE by engineering a computer that breaks the cellular-automata-threshold.
Personally, I wonder about the free will thing. Is it really true that all common forms of materialism denies free will? If so, believers in Free Spirit just got an open goal...
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