The essence of the scientific method is that it is based on being able to repeat results. If you get the same results every time you do the same operation, and when anyone else who repeats it get the same result, you can safely conclude that you have a scientific explanation. But quantum mechanics says no, you have to assume everything happens with a probability but not with a 100% certainty. It's always statistical only. The two views are not compatible. Now that gives us a problem, because QM breaks science. Yet physicists tell us that QM is real. Basically they are implying we cannot trust science anymore. I realized this tonight when I realized that quantum connectivity might mean that sympathetic magic might have a real basis, but would be very hard to prove as it would be probabilistic in operation. Holy smoke. Might we want to rethink parts of old-time magic after all? Something to ponder.
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No it doesn't.
Many fields of natural sciences are already transferring to quantum maths.
The issue is doing stochastic processes with waveform functions and not deterministic continuous functions.
It's all doable and is being done in many fields already.
All you get is a range of outcomes, and still repeatability. In fact, this models the real world more accurately than simplistic deterministic models.
If there was no (stochastic, modellable) repeatability, you couldn't design, engineer, build and utilize quantum computers for computing, but we can.
Would you advocate doing medical science based on probability of death from a treatment method, or upon certainty that it will not harm? "Mr. Smith, there is a probability of 20% you will die from this hangnail treatment, 34 percent you will be crippled for life!"
Yes I would, because that's how the cookie crumbles.
People should be given REAL STATS on the treatment options success rate based on a large enough representative sample (i.e. telling them the truth).
AFTER THAT, they should be given as much belief support and good bedside manners as required, to make their chosen treatment plan work (i.e. harnessing the power of placebo).
The current system does exactly opposite: likes about the treatments and gives you a nocebo ("you're gonna die...")
It's 100% ass-backwards.