Entanglement Could Be a Deterministic Phenomenon

KentuckyFC writes "Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft has joined the likes of computer scientists Stephen Wolfram and Ed Fredkin in claiming that the universe can be accurately modeled by cellular automata. The novel aspect of 't Hooft's model is that it allows quantum mechanics and, in particular, the spooky action at a distance known as entanglement to be deterministic. The idea that quantum mechanics is fundamentally deterministic is known as hidden variable theory but has been widely discounted by physicists because numerous experiments have shown its predictions to be wrong. But 't Hooft says his cellular automaton model is a new class of hidden variable theory that falls outside the remit of previous tests. However, he readily admits that the new model has serious shortcomings — it lacks some of the basic symmetries that our universe enjoys, such as rotational symmetry. However, 't Hooft adds that he is working on modifications that will make the model more realistic (abstract)."

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Offended? No. He was trolling. You happened to be just the kind of brain-washed idiot who picks up on that and eats it like it's cocaine-laced Frosted Flakes. It was about as offensive to me as if a 13 year old told me their parents are just a sheep because they don't want to accept vampirism as their career choice -- nothing but the derisions of idiocy that were hardly directed at me, but I could still identify as stupidity. Idiots who think this sort of spineless persecution toward something that you don't like should be lauded as an intellectual success have already rotted a nest out for yourselves. Digg. So go play with the rest of your kind.

The ignorance he showed toward a thousand year history of astronomy and physics? That's what I found a bit more offensive.