
How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Quantum Mechanics - Is the Universe Really Random?
There's a famous way to tell whether or not electrons and things at the microscopic level are truly random. And this is the idea of Bell's experiment. Einstein, though he had some of the foundational ideas that led us to develop quantum mechanics, was fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea that the universe was truly random. He thought perhaps there were just details there that we were not understanding.
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