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How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Quantum Theory Without Hidden Variables - Can We Tell if Those Measurements Are Undetermined?

In quantum mechanics, you can't know more than one direction of spin at once. This is the crucial concept in Bell's theory because it changes how measurements in different directions are correlated along different axes. So they're not just not known, they're not determined. Can we tell if those measurements are undetermined or unknown? That's really the issue we want to answer.

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