A first-principles approach to physics based on locality and operationalism
arXiv:1412.7731 · doi:10.22323/1.224.0171
Abstract
Starting from the guiding principles of spacetime locality and operationalism, a general framework for a probabilistic description of nature is proposed. Crucially, no notion of time or metric is assumed, neither any specific physical model. Remarkably, the emerging framework converges with a recently proposed formulation of quantum theory, obtained constructively from known quantum physics. At the same time the framework also admits statistical theories of classical physics.
8 pages, LaTeX + PoS, contribution to the proceedings of the conference "Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 14" (Marseille, 2014)