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I wonder if we could ever compute which exact atom in nuclear fission will split at a very specific time. If that is impossible, then our math and understanding of physics is so far short of what is needed that I don’t feel comfortable with your starting assumption.


Quantum mechanics doesn't work like that. It doesn't describe when something will happen, but the evolution of branching paths and their probabilities.




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