God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe

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Can the universe be governed just by probabilities?

According to Einstein, no. As he famously stated:

“God does not play dice with the universe”.

Are you wondering how come he said that?

Well, this is an interesting story!

It starts almost 100 years ago…

During 1925, a new theory was formed.

The Copenhagen Interpretation

The collection of theories and rules that govern quantum mechanics.

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Due to the nature of these rules, it was proposed that quantum mechanics is intrinsically indeterministic.

So, the quantum world is inherently unpredictable!

We can only determine the probability of finding a result.

Even if we have all possible information about a given system.

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