Determinism Beneath Quantum Mechanics

Edwin Cartlidge

The idea of determinism has had a powerful grip on the imagination of physicists ever since Pierre Simon Laplace evoked the idea of the clockwork universe. When Einstein uttered his famous phrase God doesn't play dice, he was expressing his unhappiness with the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, believing that beneath quantum theory must lie a deeper, deterministic theory of nature. But such has been the huge success of quantum theory that most physicists now believe that the ultimate physical theory will be quantum mechanical and that nature is fundamentally random.

Grete Hermann

Niall Shanks

Matteo G. A. Paris, Mauro Paternostro

A new optical experiment provides further proof that quantum mechanics is not hiding some classical framework beneath its veneer of context-dependent observations.

Matteo G. A. Paris, Mauro Paternostro

A new optical experiment provides further proof that quantum mechanics is not hiding some classical framework beneath its veneer of context-dependent observations.

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