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Old 11-04-2011, 01:03 AM
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Default Re: A Revolution in Thought: Part Two

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Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger View Post
"Unpredictable" doesn't necessarily mean "undetermined."
That's true, Michael. However it's quite possible to prove that in the case of quantum mechanics, unpredictable does indeed mean indeterminate - it simply isn't the case that the predictions of quantum mechanics are consistent with an object having a definite position and momentum (for example), not merely that we can never know it.

Subject to no 'action at a distance' violations of special relativity, anyway.

I should write up a talk I gave on Bell's Theorem a few years back.
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