论文标题
不确定性，因果关系和信息：物理学是否曾经是确定性的？
Indeterminism, causality and information: Has physics ever been deterministic?
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论文摘要
物理学家之间的传统认为，古典物理学是一种完全确定的理论，能够绝对确定地预测未来，而与任何解释无关。它还说明，量子力学将基本不确定性引入了物理学。我们表明，存在替代故事，在哪种古典力学也可以解释为一种根本上不确定的理论。一方面，这为开放未来的许多可能性留出了空间，但另一方面，它带来了古典物理学的一些概念性问题，例如量子力学的典型概念问题，例如测量问题。我们在这里讨论替代性，不确定的古典物理学及其与信息理论和因果关系概念的关系。
A tradition handed down among physicists maintains that classical physics is a perfectly deterministic theory capable of predicting the future with absolute certainty, independently of any interpretations. It also tells that it was quantum mechanics that introduced fundamental indeterminacy into physics. We show that there exist alternative stories to be told in which classical mechanics, too, can be interpreted as a fundamentally indeterministic theory. On the one hand, this leaves room for the many possibilities of an open future, yet, on the other, it brings into classical physics some of the conceptual issues typical of quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem. We discuss here some of the issues of an alternative, indeterministic classical physics and their relation to the theory of information and the notion of causality.
