Sunday, February 17, 2013
A World of Probability
Quantum mechanics, one of the most excepted and accurately tested theories in physics tells us that the world may not run on absolute laws, but rather on probabilities. Quantum mechanics says that the reason classical physics seems to work at the macro level is because it takes the most likely outcome. The reason we don't see these probabilities in physics is because at the macro level the probabilities of the expected result are so high that it could take over a million years to get a different result. On the micro level these probabilities have been tested and seen many times. I am not sure if this proves that we have free will because probability is not choice, but I do believe this proves that the world is not completely determined because probability plays a role.
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