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"The result of any sufficiently complex process is indistinguishable from randomness." - A. Kolmogorov [1] [1] Unpublished email
by astrobe_ 5y ago
"The result of any sufficiently complex process is indistinguishable from randomness."
- A. Kolmogorov [1]
[1] Unpublished email
- marginalia_nu 5y agoLet this man in on the Bell Theorem.
- ur-whale 5y ago> Let this man in on the Bell Theorem. Not being able to go from here to there, sorry. Care to elaborate?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIn short, it's a theorem proving that quantum randomness can not be the result of local hidden variables. That is, quantum randomness is distinguishable from some hypothetical hissen classical processes we've yet to discover. It's one of the big "well, shit"-moments for the early 20th century quantum skeptics like Einstein.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoThe local bit is important. Non-local deterministic interpretations are possible, eg Many Worlds or De-Broglie Bohm.
- ravi-delia 5y agoMany worlds isn't non-local, it works the same as Copenhagen when it comes to Bell's Theorem. If you're experiencing quantum effects you haven't decohered yet, and it's just bog-standard quantum physics, not a hidden variable theory.
- astrobe_ 5y agoSo, it's like TRNG versus PRNG ;-)