Re: Why field theories are deterministic, but QM isn't?



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On Apr 1, 10:54M-BM- am, Igor Khavkine <igor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

QED and QFT in general is no more and no less deterministic than QM of
particles.


See http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.600-can-fractals-make-sense-of-the-quantum-world.html?full=true
for an extremely interesting and provocative discussion of T.N.
Palmer's remarkable new ideas regarding a possible deterministic
underpinning for Quantum Mechanics. Physics is clearly not "finished".

Knecht
.



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