Determinism Revisited

[mburbank]

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

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.

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.