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Originally Posted by mburbank

The hidden variable is hidden because he couldn't figure it out, dope.

Well no shit, sherlock. The point is that it remains a viable theory for showing how determinism could work with quantum mechanics.

Events at the quantum level cannot be observed without effecting them. There are multipe different interpretations of how observation effects the subatomic world, from bizarre notions about particles having free will themsleves, to our own will determining their behavior to observation simply nudging particles, but no one I'm aware of thinks you can determine the location and momentum of an electron simlutaneously.

Show me the evidence. How can quantum events that are observed be compared to quantum events that are not observed for such a conclusion to be drawn? Highly illogical.

Most of these theories are the result of blown smoke. I believe it was a Nobel laurete who said that you can say whatever you want in physics these days.

Einstein had a gut intuition that you could but he never got anywhere near it. To date, the only even tangientially related work has been done by Hawking who showed that black holes do emit some radiation proving some as yet undescribed linkage between quantum and classical physics.

I wouldn't call it "gut intuition". It was more like an inductive argument built up from all previous observations in physics.