I'm and Atheist and Believe in Predeterminism: Prove Me Wrong

[m_the0ry]

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Is this correct? I thought the uncertainty principle went deeper than this. Whereby it's not just the practical impossiblity of determining both location and velocity exactly with a probe, but an inherent uncertainty for the two taken together as a matter of the actual state.

PairTheBoard

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Planck's constant defines the resolution of quantum mechanics and it inherantly quantizes energy. Unless we can quantize energy with greater resolution than the photon there is no way to determine the mechanisms underlying quantum mechanics. Yes, EPR does disprove locality and allows for measurements without disturbing an entangled particle. But it has been shown that these measurements reveal no new information to the environmental system and are just a formalism for thinking as a particle as independent instead of as a quantum system - shown in how entangled particles cannot enable faster-than-light communication.

I guess my point is that while it is definitely possible that there are underlying mechanisms to quantum randomness, it's an all or nothing deal where we have to abandon all of the theory if we assume there are no purely random measurements.