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Use this tag for questions related to the concept of determinism, the idea that all events in the universe can be predicted from some set of initial conditions.

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Why Quantum Mechanics as a non-fundamental effective theory?

I once heard from one of my professors one convincing argument about QM being a non fundamental theory. If you look at Classical Mechanics, for example, you have just one dynamics governing all system …
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Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?

You're right; the Schrödinger's equation induces a unitary time evolution, and it is deterministic. Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics is given by another "evolution" that the wavefunction may experie …
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