Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science'

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2002-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

Revised version. 14 pages, to appear in Quantum Information & Computation, September 2002

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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.

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