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Aug 12, 2015 at 16:13 comment added Timaeus @Morty Responded in the answer
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Aug 12, 2015 at 14:58 comment added Morty Timaeus: Hi I agree that the decay itself is "real" but I was just wondering if the underlying principle behind it is so well-understood that the seeming indeterminism is necessarily quantum. And is not due to just high complexity in the particle interactions in the nucleus (see my other comment above where I compare it to the wheather)?
Aug 11, 2015 at 16:17 comment added Timaeus @Morty I made an edit to the answer, though I'm still not sure what is unclear about my answer. If I find out I'll fix it again.
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Aug 11, 2015 at 14:42 comment added Morty OK yeah I know that Bell's theorem is in itself limited in what it rules out. But my question is I guess whether it even applies (or is known to apply) to radioactive decay, i.e. whether the seeming indeterministism in radioactive decay is known to derive from the quantum (and is not merely a, say, a classic phenomenon involving one or more state variable in the nuclei that we can't measure i.e. a "classic hidden variable").
Aug 10, 2015 at 21:29 history answered Timaeus CC BY-SA 3.0