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by donaq 2539 days ago
Aren't there deterministic interpretations of QM? Or have those been disproven?
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(disclaimer: not a physicist, never looked into the maths, but I'm intrigued by QF)

There are deterministic interpretations that are very much on the table.

The Everett's Many Worlds[1] is fully deterministic (and depending on your view, the simplest one too): the universe is a quantum wave function evolving according to the Shrödinger's equation. That's it.

A lot (if not all) of the hidden variables theories are also deterministic. The apparent non-determinism stems from the aforementioned variables that we don't/can't see.

I keep hearing more and more about the Pilot wave theory[2] recently. And that's a hidden-variables deterministic interpretation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory