Does Physics Say that Free Will Doesn't Exist?

Does physics say that free will doesn't exist?

Physics says every action has an underlying cause that stretches back to the Big Bang on the quantum level, so where does that leave human free will?

The Atlantic denies the existence of free will but says that determinism makes us behave badly

I can’t resist calling your attention to a 2016 article on free will, mainly because it appeared in The Atlantic—a magazine many here (including me) admire. And as I’m reading Matthew Cobb’s terrific new biography of Francis Crick, I see that Crick was a determinist like me, though he realized that different phenomena require different levels of analysis. Crick didn’t think that free will was even worth considering, and avoided it like the plagu…