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Old 11-07-2005, 05:36 PM
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Default Re: How can randomness possibly exist?

it will give you hawking's ideas about time and multiple universes and reality. will that answer your question? it is not an easy read, however.

perhaps a better book for you to read would be "Chaos" by a guy named Glick, i believe.

the whole idea of "predetermined" goes out the window when you think there is room for every possibility and our free will chooses the one we believe we deserve.

randomness however, is so different from what you are talking about. uncertainty says we can predict groups, but not the individual. we can say that in 100 attempts we will expect this many occurrences, but each attempt is unique, so you can't possibly guarantee a prediction of the outcome of anything that hasn't happened. In fact, you can't even predict the outcome of something that has happened, if you believe that all possibilities are still possible.
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