"Quantum physicists today are reconciled to randomness at the individual event level, but to expect causality to underlie statistical quantum phenomena is reasonable. Suppose a person shakes an ink pen such that ink spots are formed on a white wall, in what appears for all intents and purposes, randomly. Let us further suppose the random ink spots accumulate to form precise pictures of different known persons' faces every time. We will not regard the overall result to be a happenchance; we are apt to suspect there must be a "method" to the person who is shaking the ink pen."
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R.Gomatam’s response to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg's article "Einstein's Mistakes" published in Physics Today,Volume 59, Issue 4, Letters, October, 2005.
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