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The Black Box of Probability
Dice as a metaphor for chance, dice are also a deterministic, classical, dynamical system. Einstein didn't think of it that way, he didn't mean it that way. But there are people who wonder whether actually maybe that's what's going on in the quantum world. If I'm a radioactive atom sitting there waiting to decay according to some probability,. how do I know when to decay? How is that probability law built into the physics?