• midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    No, that’s exactly what I mean and exactly what I think you are missing: quantum mechanical experiments have been reproduced thousands of times, and even as measuring instruments became sensitive, the predictions have held true. The statistical nature of it doesn’t make it any less predictable, and an experiment proving a different statistical value of an event than QM predicts would be world news.

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      11 hours ago

      The statistical nature of it doesn’t make it any less predictable

      Exactly. Similarly, an all-powerful being messing with our world doesn’t mean we can no longer make predictions. We just end up with a model with hidden variables that change over time.

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        10 hours ago

        An act of god would break at least some predictions, or else it would be indistinguishable from a natural event. Also as a point of fact, QM has no hidden variables, that was proven by Bell’s inequality experiments in the 70s. And again, experiments are reproduced every day, the results haven’t changed, QM has been a successful and reliable model.

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          10 hours ago

          I think you’ve lost the context for this conversation. No one’s disputing the reproducibility of QM experiments or for the existence of hidden variables.