@Tako_400 Said 
The term Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was often used interchangeably with and as a synonym for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle by detractors who believed in fate and determinism and saw the common features of the Bohr-Heisenberg theories as a threat. Within the widely but not universally accepted Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (i.e. it was not accepted by Einstein or other physicists such as Alfred Lande), the uncertainty principle is taken to mean that on an elementary level, the physical universe does not exist in a deterministic form, but rather as a collection of probabilities, or possible outcomes. For example, the pattern (probability distribution) produced by millions of photons passing through a diffraction slit can be calculated using quantum mechanics, but the exact path of each photon cannot be predicted by any known method. The Copenhagen interpretation holds that it cannot be predicted by any method, not even with theoretically infinitely precise measurements.
If one goes even further to the direct interpretation that classical physics and ordinary language are only approximations to a completely quantum reality, then the probabilities are assigned to these approximations and are no longer fundamental. The equations of quantum mechanics themselves specify the progression of the quantum state of any isolated system uniquely."
This is quite new to me... I don't know what to think of it this very moment.
Yeah we looked at quantum mechanics in my Philosophy class as well, as a counter argument for Hume's Causation theory (I think, bearing in mind I failed that module
). It makes sense but I think when thinking about Philosophy if you go too far into science then you just get to dead ends and eventually infinite regress as we still don't know that much about the world and the universe really, science or no science.
Sep 18, 2009 @ 20:45:14
