Relativity and Indeterminacy

Abstract

WITHOUT wishing in any way to disagree with H. Bondi's view¹ that “relativity demands a non-deterministic theory”, I would suggest that his final summing-up is somewhat misleading. He says: “The flow of time has no significance in the logically fixed pattern of events demanded by deterministic theory, time being a mere co-ordinate. In a theory of indeterminacy, however, the passage of time transforms statistical expectations into real events”.