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In the Messenger Lectures (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html) Feynman says that the theory of "hidden variables" tells us that the cause of uncertainty in nature (the cause that nature works with probabilities) is that we don't have enough information to predict the future. If we had enough information we could calculate with infinite precision what is going to happen in the future.
But Feynman says that this theory is wrong, the hidden variable theory is wrong and that the fact that nature works with probabilities seems to be an intrinsic property of nature. He says something like: "[...] nature herself doesn't know which way the electron is going to go".
My question is: why is the hidden variable theory wrong? How was that proven? How do he knows that probability is something intrinsic in nature?
Thank you,
Rafael Andreatta
But Feynman says that this theory is wrong, the hidden variable theory is wrong and that the fact that nature works with probabilities seems to be an intrinsic property of nature. He says something like: "[...] nature herself doesn't know which way the electron is going to go".
My question is: why is the hidden variable theory wrong? How was that proven? How do he knows that probability is something intrinsic in nature?
Thank you,
Rafael Andreatta