Thursday, August 4, 2011
Hey Physicists; are we sure that something can be TRULY random?
Many many years ago the same kind of problem was discussed in the physics community. Einstein lead a group that did not believe in randomness or quantum mechanics famous stating taht "God[i.e the laws of physics] does not play dice [i.e are not random]". Eventually the argument was settled by bell in his famous c1960 paper about Bells inequality. This basically showed that there are no hidden variables, i.e it was due to randomness. This, for now, has settled the argument. We physicists are however struggling with this as randomness on a quantum levels gives rise to order on the macroscopic level i.e Newtonian laws. Feel free to email me if you have any more questions.
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