Re:What is quantum field theory and why is it incomplete?
by MacsHeadroom on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:05AM
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> Is that because... all previous physics was deterministic?
No, it's a purely logical argument. Randomness is fundamentally unprovable/unfalsifiable. Therefore, in principle, any possible process in any imaginable system can only ultimately be found to be either provably deterministic or unfalsifiable.
On the other hand, it is possible for there to be unfalsifiable structures which determine the outcome of apparently random processes which are not truly random. In fact, it's trivial to create practical cases of such sources of psudorandomness.
You believe that positing the existence of one such structure to be the bigger leap simply because it may be not just practically unfalsifiable but in-principle unfalsifiable (though that is undetermined).
No, it's a purely logical argument. Randomness is fundamentally unprovable/unfalsifiable. Therefore, in principle, any possible process in any imaginable system can only ultimately be found to be either provably deterministic or unfalsifiable.
On the other hand, it is possible for there to be unfalsifiable structures which determine the outcome of apparently random processes which are not truly random. In fact, it's trivial to create practical cases of such sources of psudorandomness.
You believe that positing the existence of one such structure to be the bigger leap simply because it may be not just practically unfalsifiable but in-principle unfalsifiable (though that is undetermined).