Governing laws of quantum mechanics

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Laymen here.

I have been told that the motion of particles at the quantum level are random. If this is not true please elaborate.

Whether this is the case or whether there is a pattern waiting to be discovered, isn't it true that the world at the quantum level is still governed by mathematically precise laws as it is at the level of general relativity?
 
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revo74 said:
I have been told that the motion of particles at the quantum level are random. If this is not true please elaborate.
At least the appearance of most microscopic events look random to us, and the standard textbook view takes this into account.
revo74 said:
Whether this is the case or whether there is a pattern waiting to be discovered, isn't it true that the world at the quantum level is still governed by mathematically precise laws as it is at the level of general relativity?
The quantum laws are even more precise than the classical laws. Quantum electrodynamics makes some predictions verified to 12 digits of relative accuracy, something no other theory has achieved.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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