Does random have rules?
March 26, 2015 at 10:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2015 at 10:44 pm by watchamadoodle.)
(Sorry in advance if I'm getting this wrong.)
QM has a probability wave that collapses into a measurement.
If we take lots of measurements of the same type, then we begin to see the probability wave statistically.
Do you suppose there is a "law of conservation of randomness" in the universe that makes true randomness converge to the expected values?
Is it possible that future and past measurements are solutions to an equation where time isn't smooth? In classical mechanics the future and past positions of an object are all solutions to the same equation. Maybe in quantum mechanics it's the same way, except the connection is not between events in adjacent times but in more distant times? This might give the appearance of randomness?
Of course there are those arrows of time that you guys mentioned in thermodynamics and retarded potential.
Another issue is entropy. It seems to me that entropy is a measurement of randomness. Entropy seems pretty real, so that might mean randomness is pretty real too.
Probably nothing I said there makes sense. Cat's are great!!! (at least I said something sensible now
)
QM has a probability wave that collapses into a measurement.
If we take lots of measurements of the same type, then we begin to see the probability wave statistically.
Do you suppose there is a "law of conservation of randomness" in the universe that makes true randomness converge to the expected values?
Is it possible that future and past measurements are solutions to an equation where time isn't smooth? In classical mechanics the future and past positions of an object are all solutions to the same equation. Maybe in quantum mechanics it's the same way, except the connection is not between events in adjacent times but in more distant times? This might give the appearance of randomness?
Of course there are those arrows of time that you guys mentioned in thermodynamics and retarded potential.
Another issue is entropy. It seems to me that entropy is a measurement of randomness. Entropy seems pretty real, so that might mean randomness is pretty real too.
Probably nothing I said there makes sense. Cat's are great!!! (at least I said something sensible now
)
