Comment by hearsathought
2 days ago
> In physics, the change from classical to quantum theory was a change from determinism to probabilistic determinism.
Don't you mean from determinism to nondeterminism?
> There is not one physicist on earth that would ever exhort you to use quantum theory where classical theory will do.
That's being practical.
> "Don't you mean from determinism to nondeterminism?"
No, I mean exactly what I said. Given a system's state, one evolves the state using wave equation du jour, nondeterminism does not occur.