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> In physics, the change from classical to quantum theory was a change from determinism to probabilistic determinism. Don't you mean from determinism to nondet
by hearsathought 1y ago
> In physics, the change from classical to quantum theory was a change from determinism to probabilistic determinism.
Don't you mean from determinism to nondeterminism?
> There is not one physicist on earth that would ever exhort you to use quantum theory where classical theory will do.
That's being practical.
- d4rkn0d3z 1y ago> "Don't you mean from determinism to nondeterminism?" No, I mean exactly what I said. Given a system's state, one evolves the state using wave equation du jour, nondeterminism does not occur.