Talk:God does not play dice with the universe


 * 1) The course of all events is predetermined.

I think this is poor representation of what he said. The idea is that he 'rejected' QM because Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle did not allow for us to know the position and momentum of a particle with absolute certainty simultaneously, and only probability could be used to describe those two quantities. He did not take well to this, and insisted that all processes in this universe are governed by knowable laws; he was convinced that there was some law that would indeed describe the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously at all scales.

A better revision might be:


 * 1) The course of all events is perfectly predicted by some set of laws.

While this doesn't seem too different at face value, it captures the why much better than the original statement. He's not talking about determinism, he's talking about the physics itself.

73.235.188.32 19:19, 31 August 2020 (UTC) Patelpb

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