Quantum Mechanics Fully Deduced from Probability Theory Alone and the Consequences of that

What is it about?

Quantum mechanics is a mysterious theory, that has on of the greatest impacts on our lives. In this paper, a new approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics is introduced, which shows that quantum mechanics is nothing more than probability theory cast in another language. This has huge implications for our understanding of a large number of problems in physics, some of which are discussed in detail in the paper itself.

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Why is it important?

Lots of problems in physics can be made much clearer and easier to handle if we can understand the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, and those problems span a wide range: from quantum gravity, to quantum computing. This paper not only introduce a solution to the measurement problem, but it also provides a new path of research that helps us to understand the said problems, and in particular it suggests new paths of research that can, in principle, make quantum computing more practical and cheap. On a theoretical level, it deduces the whole of quantum mechanics from probability theory alone, explains why we need complex numbers in quantum mechanics, reveals new correlations between space and time, provides an answer for the question of why the laws of physics are the way they are (without the need to assume the existence of a multiverse nor the anthropic principle), and shows Bell's theorem in a totally new light.

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