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How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There Local Hidden Variables?

Bell's experiment only rules out local hidden variables not global hidden variables. There is an interpretation of quantum mechanics called boamy and mechanics or quantum mechanics is not random but there's this pilot wave which controls the whole universe, says oh if this one over here spin up I'm going to go make this one be spin down. It's like coordinating globally faster than the speed of light. The more common interpretation is a quantum mechanics is really just random.

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