"you should have a purely deterministic, non-random, and if you could get the data and do the math, a predictable situation." From a Newtonian/Classical perspe

"you should have a purely deterministic, non-random, and if you could get the data and do the math, a predictable situation." From a Newtonian/Classical perspective - yes. Well, maybe not! It's possible that indeterminism may be found in classical mechanics; the classic example is Norton's Dome, discussed in [1] with another reference in [2]. If you read [1], you'll see that there isn't yet any general agreement as to why its paradox is invalid. That's a potentially fruitful avenue for research, methinks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome [2] http://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2678/history-of-the-study-of-indeterminism-in-classical-mechanics http://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2678/history-of-the-s...