I've finally found a break between researching/writing my paper on bioinformatics to come back to this philosophical debate.
After reviewing the books I've read on the subject, I finally found the reference I've been looking for all this time.
Bell's Theorem. Basically, the theorem states that if information can't travel faster than the speed of light, which has been both theoretically and experimentally verified, then there exists no hidden variable within a prediction by quantum mechanics which determines or affects the outcome; so there are no hidden and/or attainable/unattainable variables within quantum mechanics, so it is completely random. More to the fact, real-life experiments have verified the theorem (there have only been two experiments which didn't agree with the theorem, and since then those results haven't been reproduced)
This is obviously counterintuitive to what we would expect. Even in your example about the bridge, you make perfect sense, but one of the things which is so interesting about QM is that it doesn't make any sense to us, as I've already said; and yet it's sound.
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That being said, researching Bell's Theorem, I came upon another mind-shattering possibility: the apparent randomness of the universe isn't caused by the past, but by the future! So the cause-and-effect is backwards to the reality that the effect creates the cause, and all matter is entangled (implied by QM) so somehow this implies that the future dictates the present and...Fuck it, it doesn't make any sense either, but there's some very, very interesting empirical data which really makes this somewhat plausible on the first document from
this site. I'll have to keep an eye out for any new developments. This shit is crazy.
