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The history of twentieth century physics is interpreted as the result of a consistent undertaking by the scientific community to retain for this discipline the characteristics of a science “of laws”, by excluding from its domain all those phenomena and theories which could have introduced into physics some features of the sciences “of processes”. A brief survey of the roads abandoned as a consequence of this choice is presented, together with a short review of recent attempts to formulate a theory equivalent to Quantum Mechanics by using the theory of stochastic processes.
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Cini, M. (1988). Chance: Chaos or Logic?. In: Tarozzi, G., van der Merwe, A. (eds) The Nature of Quantum Paradoxes. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2947-0_3
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