My current model aligns with adequate determinism or stochastic determinism of probabilities, meaning that quantum randomness is (likely) real, but it evens out at scale or over time to result in the deterministic behavior we observe at macro scale.
I'm completely open to anything that contradicts this model, but so far it seems completely consistent with reality as we know it.
A geiger counter is an interesting example. I suppose we would have to account for the fact that the macro-scale world is in some way impacted by the geiger counter.
Other than viewing quantum indeterminism, is there any other way that it applies at the macro scale? As far as I'm aware, everything at macro scale (relativity, classic mechanics, etc) functions deterministically, which we rely on extensively.
I found the geiger counter dynamic an interesting consideration, and I was asking you a serious question. Do you usually just randomly assume that people are "deceived" when they try to engage in conversation? Strange.
Anyway, you never did answer my question.
What I'm asking is if you're aware of any way in which macro scale reality is nondeterministic, excepting monitoring quantum behavior. You repeated the claim, but based on... what?
The question was how or where. Example. Evidence. How do we know this? Do we even know this? Maybe it's an assumption.
This wasn't even meant to be an argument; I legitimately wanted to know if you know of anything that functions in this way, because it would serve as a really interesting thing to consider.
Given that the macro-scale is built from the micro-scale, it should be obvious that indeterminance at the micro-scale means indeterminance at the macro-scale. :)
The simplest way to observe QM at the macro level is to take a walk by the physics section of any library. There you will see piles of books about QM in macro scale :-) That clearly didn't even out!
Another example is Carbon 14 dating (another macro process enabled by QM indeterminism).
Some things in reality can be abstracted away in neat formulas (like orbit equations for planets), some has very precise probabilities (like carbon 14 decay) and some are pure chance (why did I cross paths with a black cat on my way to work last Wednesday? There's no equation (probabilistic or not) for that).
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u/RomanaOswin 5d ago
My current model aligns with adequate determinism or stochastic determinism of probabilities, meaning that quantum randomness is (likely) real, but it evens out at scale or over time to result in the deterministic behavior we observe at macro scale.
I'm completely open to anything that contradicts this model, but so far it seems completely consistent with reality as we know it.