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Is the Universe Deterministic or Truly Random?

The universe’s nature—deterministic, where every event follows predictable laws, or truly random, with inherent unpredictability—remains a core debate in physics and philosophy. Classical mechanics, rooted in Newton’s principles, portrays a clockwork cosmos: know initial conditions, and outcomes are fixed. Yet quantum mechanics disrupts this, introducing probabilities; events like electron positions or atomic decay aren’t certain […]