Photons and determinism, part 2

[Surgenator]

First off, "not subject to causal influences" is violation of the other postulate of relativity, i.e. the physics laws remain the same independent of the inertial reference frame.

Second, you're giving more weight to the photon's reference frame than any other one. If you want relativity to apply, the reference frame should NOT matter. The fact that I can create a casual influence in my frame, means that a casual influence has to exist in the photon reference frame.

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In our reference frame, the photon ALSO hits my eye. The difference is that the photon's timelessness means that it could not have been otherwise.

Not if I don't want it to. If I know when the photon will arrive at your eye, I can block it before it gets there. If the photon has left it source (in my frame), it cannot change its course. Therefore I decide if it hits or not.

Repeating the experiment should not change the results. So the same initial conditions lead to the same results in a deterministic system.

Okay. Go ahead and place all the objects in the universe in the same positions, and arrange for a photon to leave a sun 1,000 light years away, and make sure that the exact same emitting body is pointed at the exact same eye. I eagerly await your results.

If I were to set all of the universe to a previous state, quantum mechanics states that it is NOT a guarantee the photon will hit your eye. The probability distribution will still be the same, but the observation (the photon hitting your eye) may not be. The photon might hit another particle along the way that it didn't hit the previous time. That is how QM works.