One of the great debates in this history of philosophy (eventually evolving into science and social science) has been between determinism and indeterminism. Determinists argued that all other things ...

Quantum physics diverges fundamentally from classical determinism through the intrinsic unpredictability of measurement outcomes. At the heart lies the probabilistic nature of wavefunction collapse ...

Few of Albert Einstein’s sayings have been as widely quoted as his remark that God does not play dice with the universe. People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed ...

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When lists of academics with unusual names are made, Professor Richard Titball (how could his parents, how could they?), the microbiologist from the University of Exeter, usually gets a mention (“ ...

MR. BARKAS in his letter in Nature of November 25 says, "My difficulty is that if the final result of, say, one million, or billion, photons is regular (that is, determined), then how can the choice ...