(April 11, 2014 at 8:25 am)Heywood Wrote: If I roll dice, the out come of the roll is completely random to me. However If I looked at the dice roll in sufficient detail....noting the initial point of contact, velocity, angular momentum, coefficient of friction, etc. the outcome becomes predictable. It would seem then that randomness is really just a function of ignorance.
This LaPlacian view holds true until you get to the quantum level. At the quantum level events happen which physicists tell us are fundamentally random. Fundamentally random is a hard pill to swallow when randomness appears to be a function of ignorance.
So who or what is throwing the dice for you atheists?
So, it seems you're asking where does the randomness of QM come from... am I right?
Have you tried reading about it, before coming here to ask us? Some of us may know about it, but most will have no in depth knowledge, nor care too much about it, hence the yawns you got.
If you do care, then please, feel free to indulge your curiosity. Here's a few links for starters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model