RE: How flexible is the principle of causality?
March 17, 2014 at 3:35 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 3:40 am by Alex K.)
It's a good philosophical question what true randomness is, hm? It's hard if not impossible to define.
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All I can say with certainty (I think...) is that the Copenhagen interpretation includes a prescription for interpreting measurements which explicitly says that experimental outcomes are random as far as the theory is concerned, because it specifies only propabilities for them. In the many worlds interpretation, there is a pretty weird mechanism that gives you true randomness, because it makes say 10 copies of yourself, and as which one of them you find yourself after the measurement is truly random. Or is it? Now wrap your head around that.
All I can say with certainty (I think...) is that the Copenhagen interpretation includes a prescription for interpreting measurements which explicitly says that experimental outcomes are random as far as the theory is concerned, because it specifies only propabilities for them. In the many worlds interpretation, there is a pretty weird mechanism that gives you true randomness, because it makes say 10 copies of yourself, and as which one of them you find yourself after the measurement is truly random. Or is it? Now wrap your head around that.
