Gerard ‘t Hooft

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A Nobel prize-winning physicist has developed a model of the universe as a cellular automaton that allows entanglement to be deterministic.

The universe is a cellular automaton in which reality is simply the read out of a giant, fantastically complex computing machine. That’s the conclusion of the Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft who says this also means that quantum mechanics is a deterministic theory.

The key new feature of this deterministic model is that it specifically allows for the quantum phenomenon of entanglement.

The real question is whether ‘t Hooft’s can make any predictions that would allow other scientists to put is model to the test.

Link: technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/ / arxiv.org/abs/0908.3408

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

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