WereKitten said:
That's not so cut-and-dry in the world of quantum mechanics. There's, to our current understanding, no cause that says that a given unstable atom must decay right now and not a second ago. There's probabilities distributions, but no actual dice. |
Although i'd argue that's more likely to be a problem with current tools and perception then it is actual no reason for it happening. I'd think it's probable there is something going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, since that's been the case of basically everything else we haven't known the full story about.
Afterall at one time atoms were considered the smallest piece of matter and was made of nothing.
Personally i'm in the pessimist sciece category. That is, that while science should fully go foward trying to figure out the universe and everything about it. I believe we will never get there. I think we may not even have all the needed senses and abstract thinking capabilties to figure out the universe.
Call me an extreme believer on Godel's incompleteness theorm. (Not that i think that makes a god more likely just based on that merit but while science is our best tool, it's worth noting it's not as perfect as infalliable as people thing, since most science exists to be proven wrong.)
