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Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'
Scott Aaronson
abstract: This is a critical review of the book 'A New Kind of Science' by Stephen
Wolfram. We do not attempt a chapter-by-chapter evaluation, but instead focus
on two areas: computational complexity and fundamental physics. In complexity,
we address some of the questions Wolfram raises using standard techniques in
theoretical computer science. In physics, we examine Wolfram's proposal for a
deterministic model underlying quantum mechanics, with 'long-range threads' to
connect entangled particles. We show that this proposal cannot be made
compatible with both special relativity and Bell inequality violation.
- oai_identifier:
- oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0206089
- categories:
- quant-ph
- comments:
- Revised version. 14 pages, to appear in Quantum Information &
Computation, September 2002
- arxiv_id:
- quant-ph/0206089
- created:
- 2002-06-13
- updated:
- 2002-07-30
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