Kasz216 said:
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.
What with Godel's incompleteness theorem and all.
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See my other comment in response to binary solo, about the fact that there's indeed ongoing work on the foundations of QM.
I wanted to make clear one fact: our intuitive idea of a chain of causation comes from observation of macroscopic events. Masses and inertia and forces being needed to cause acceleration in linearly moving objects above all.
QM provides a layer under that, and a very different one. It's a world of probability functions, superimposed states and EPR paradoxes. Through mechanisms that are only partially understood, and somehow connected with the so called quantum measure problem, this layer averages out to macroscopic phenomena that are very well described by classical mechanics -obviously, since we knew it was a good theory in a great breadth of applications. It averages out to a world where the chain of causation is evident.
Now the problem is that we can't just assume that some axioms we inferred from classical mechanics have an absolute validity.
We don't observe, in the averaged out macroscopic world, a superposition of elephants. But we do observe superpositions of microscopic atomic states in QM.
We don't observe action-at-a-distance in the macroscopic world, but Aspect's experiment proved that there's something like that (thought not violating general realtivity) at the level of QM. And the invalidated local hidden variable theories that solve the action-at-distance problem are not too dissimilar from saying "maybe there's a cause, but we still can't see it"
Now, it could be that we're still missing microscopic causes for the collapse of a quantum superposition, or a whole new layer under QM, but it might as well be that our intuition only brings us so far, and that in QM the world actually -simply- works differently. Right now, QM works very well numerically and it doesn't appear to need such an axiom.