There is no such thing as the size of an electron. Leading theory says that there is a world, a parallel universe, where there's the electron spinning clockwise and you saw it spinning counter clock wise. And in simple terms, is free will precluded by the very nature of existence? You will not be so. Ape tatin to sentence to ao, oand ius, giving you a sof ball has absolutely nothing to do with free will because what matters for free will is whether the laws of physics are stocastic or deterministic.
How does physics impact our free will? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Negin Farsad discuss quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and the theory of everything with theoretical physicist and author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, Sean Carroll.
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