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There are certainly interpretations of QM that are deterministic. See many worlds, for example.

• andrewflnr 13y ago
  Personally, I've never found that a comforting alternative.
  • scotty79 13y ago
    It just because people tell about it as if all the possible divergent trajectories through phase space happen not just ours. What they actually mean is that the possibilities are vast and we have no idea why reality chose exactly this path because it's not in any way priviledged. It's like a ball a top of the totally symmetric hill. If you consider phase space it contains ball rolling down in all the possible directions but noone claims that ball rolls in all of them in alternate universes. It rolls down in exactly one way though we might never have any idea why it chose this one.
    • andrewflnr 13y ago
      That sounds exactly like non-determinism, which is what we were trying to avoid.