Some scientific concepts in perspective
6: Causality by 0. R. FRISCH , F.R.S.
Jacksonian Professor of Physics
University of Cambridge
It is one of the tenets of quantum physics that atomic events can never be accurately predicted; for example, we can compute the probability, but no more, that a given radium atom will break up during a given day. But are such events really not determined? And what are the implications of this state of affairs?
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