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Old 11-06-2005, 07:09 AM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: How can randomness possibly exist?

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Any given particle has both a location and a velocity. As the uncertainty principle states, we cannot measure these precisely, but the particle still has a location and velocity whether or not humans can map them.

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This almost certainly isn't right, The particle does not take these values until the measurement is made, until then its a probability distribution.

All this is still only about whether the universe appears to behave in random way and nothing to do with whether true
randomness exists.

Also infinite knowledge has nothing to do with it unless you're talking about some god-like infinite knowledge of the future.

chez
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