Constructor Theory
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The Constructor Theory Programme is a new approach to formulating fundamental laws in physics that aims at generalising the quantum theory of computation, which was proposed by quantum computer pioneer David Deutsch.
The traditional laws of physics — such as quantum theory and general relativity— are formulated in terms of trajectories of objects, specifying what happens given some initial conditions. But there are phenomena that this traditional approach does not fully capture, such as those related to the physics of life or the physics of information. To fully capture those, and express exact laws about them, you need constructor theory.
Chiara has harnessed constructor theory and applied it to a number of select problems in quantum information theory, theoretical biology and thermodynamics.
Constructor theory’s ultimate goal is to rewrite all the fundamental laws of physics in terms of general principles expressed as counterfactual statements, about what’s possible and what’s impossible; to explain existing dynamical laws in terms of those; and to provide the guiding physical principles for the universal constructor – the ultimate generalisation of the universal Turing machine.
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