Purely Probabilistic Positions?

What we interpret as the locations of elementary particles can certainly be compared with the predictions of regular mechanics. And they will often be quite close, so the classical predictions are actually useful. But the pattern of (usually small) variations from those predictions, while not “purely” probabilistic, does seem to have a component which cannot be explained in terms of some more precise classical properties that we just have not been able to properly measure. So our idea of a regular particle may just be something that does not really exist and what we interpret as its position may indeed by something that has an essentially probabilistic component.

Source: (1000) Alan Cooper’s answer to Is electron’s location purely probabilistic so its mechanism can’t be compared with regular mechanics, or is it just too small and too fast that the only way we can detect its location and interaction is through probability? – Quora

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