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Does random have rules?

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Does random have rules?
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RE: Does random have rules?
March 27, 2015 at 12:11 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(March 26, 2015 at 11:30 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Would you say that about mass or energy and so forth?

About what aspects of them?
We must be talking about different things?

Many times we use random as a convenient abstraction to take the place of details that are too messy to include precisely. If the statistical history of those details approximates a probability density function, then we substitute a random variable for those details.

IMO the randomness that entropy quantifies is more "real". I suppose a probability wave with higher variance has higher entropy.

It seems like the probability waves are more important than the measurements, because they affect entropy? On the other hand, the measurements affect conservation of spin and all those rules.

I'm in over my head I guess. Undecided
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Does random have rules?

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Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 26, 2015 at 10:13 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Drich - March 26, 2015 at 11:07 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 26, 2015 at 11:30 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Anomalocaris - March 26, 2015 at 11:52 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 12:11 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Drich - March 27, 2015 at 11:08 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Homeless Nutter - March 27, 2015 at 5:42 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Neo-Scholastic - March 26, 2015 at 11:16 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Anomalocaris - March 26, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Pizza - March 26, 2015 at 11:34 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 26, 2015 at 11:50 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Anomalocaris - March 27, 2015 at 1:09 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 4:02 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by downbeatplumb - March 27, 2015 at 4:24 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 7:01 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by downbeatplumb - March 27, 2015 at 7:53 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 8:28 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 9:04 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 5:33 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 5:45 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Little lunch - March 27, 2015 at 7:41 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 9:06 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 9:29 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 9:40 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 10:08 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Anomalocaris - March 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 10:12 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by Anomalocaris - March 27, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by downbeatplumb - March 27, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Does random have rules? - by LostLocke - March 27, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 12:02 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 12:34 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 1:18 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 1:32 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by watchamadoodle - March 27, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: Does random have rules? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 6:29 pm

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