The implication
of the new subatomic physics was that
certainty was replaced by probability, or the
notion of tendencies rather than
absolutes: «we can never predict an atomic event with
certainty; we can only predict the likelihood
of its happening»... This directly contradicts the mechanistic model we explored above, and it implies that a subject such as normal birth needs to be looked at as a whole rather than its parts...»
Classical
certainty ceded its stewardship
of reality to the probabilistic rule
of quantum mechanics, even as the parallel revolution
of Einstein's relativity displaced our cherished,
absolute notions of space and time.