- #1
BWV
- 1,465
- 1,780
If individual atoms are indistinguishable from one another, then how can you tell if atom A will experience radioactive decay before identical atom B? ISTM there would have to be some underlying structure beyond electrons and quarks and unique to each atom / particle to be able to do this. This seems like a strong argument for true stochastic behavior of QM systems, but a sizeable minority of real scientists who understand QM still hold out for deterministic rules, so what am I missing?