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xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse

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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Well, there's not really any randomness, we just can't ever have enough data to determine exactly what will happen. Which is why we have the Uncertainty Principle. If we both had a functioning Grand Unified Theory and total knowledge of all the particles in a system, we could simulate what would happen in the system with perfect accuracy.