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> Our current understanding of radioactive decay is that it is 100% random Isn't it only locally random? I.e. there could still be some global "initial conditi
by tomp 8y ago
> Our current understanding of radioactive decay is that it is 100% random
Isn't it only locally random? I.e. there could still be some global "initial conditions" that make it deterministic (yet unknowable for us)... As in, given a sequence of numbers, there's no way to tell if it was generated randomly or just pseudorandomly (e.g. by RSA/SHA).
- db48x 8y agoThat would be called a "hidden variable", and it's already proved that no theory involving hidden variables can be correct.