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g.lemaitre
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As I see it the unpredictability of clouds can have two causes:
1. quantum indeterminacy or
2. Clouds are classical objects but they are so complicated that they cannot in practice be predicted
I'm inclined to think 1 is correct. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure protons' position is highly determined but an electron's position is not. Those electrons are forming bonds with other atoms to make molecules and because it is the electrons that dictate the bond and because electrons are indeterministic, therefore the actual molecular composition of the clouds is also indeterministic.
1. quantum indeterminacy or
2. Clouds are classical objects but they are so complicated that they cannot in practice be predicted
I'm inclined to think 1 is correct. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure protons' position is highly determined but an electron's position is not. Those electrons are forming bonds with other atoms to make molecules and because it is the electrons that dictate the bond and because electrons are indeterministic, therefore the actual molecular composition of the clouds is also indeterministic.