It seems to me that there is a fundemental question here that physicits need to address. Quantum Mechanics is founded on principles of PROBABILITY: (e.g. nuclear decay. One cannot predict when a particular atom will decay but half lives are easily calculable). Other theories can predict the distributions of say a roullet table without being able to determine the fate of a particular spin. With enough information and a different theory (Newtons Laws of Motion) we can determine the fate of a particular spin. Can we disprove with any certainty that sometime in the future new information and theories will surface that are able to predict the decay of a particular atom? Is it proven that decay can never, ever be predicted on a particular level or is it possible that yet to be discovered forces are at work.
at least the ID people are looking and asking the questions . . .
Can we disprove with any certainty that sometime in the future new information and theories will surface that are able to predict the decay of a particular atom? Were such a theory available, there would be testable consequences. For example, such a theory would allow one to label a set of radioactive atoms by their time of decay. Such a set of atoms would not obey either Bose-Einstein nor Fermi-Dirac statistics; they would obey Maxwell-Bolzmann statistics. No such system has been found; current QM theory claims such a system cannot exist.