29 Jan '08 00:59>
Originally posted by knightmeisterI discussed this at some length in the other thread, so I won't deal with it at much length here. The interesting thing about the history of quantum physics is that it began with the assumption of a deterministic, orderly universe and then moved away from it as we learned more. The possibility of hidden variables has been argued and debated and pretty thorougly rejected by the best minds in physics over the last fifty years. That's the picture presented by the evidence. The reason we're having this debate now is because there's a strong bias in favor of clear causality, and that bias is not supported by the evidence.
It's not the first time and I don't think "there must be a cause" I only question how we know for sure there is no cause. How is that verified? If we don't know something about the universe (that would give a cause) then we wouldn't know that we don't know it. Science is full of situations where we thought that we had got it only to find the curtain of ...[text shortened]... d uncaused uncertainty to think that's all there is to it? Sounds like faith to me (LOL)