(April 11, 2014 at 8:50 am)Heywood Wrote: Negative Lastpoet.Yes, I've thought this about decay of radioactive isotopes. Is it random, or do we just not know the factors involved? For instance, decay rate of some isotopes seems to vary, and the variance is correlated to sunspot activity. The suggested mechanism behind the variance is solar neutrinos. Seems reasonable to believe that, like your dice, radioactive decay is predictable, but the factors and complexity are currently beyond us.
When it is said that randomness is a function of ignorance, what is meant is that the variables responsible for a result are unknown to the observer of the "random" event.
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