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by vitaminj
6597 days ago
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Statistical randomness is pretty well defined. Say you have a set of independent and identically distributed (iid) random numbers, then if you plot a long run histogram it should resemble the probability density function of the distribution. Irrespective of whether it was generated by a pseudo-random algorithm or by quantum disturbances, your set of numbers is statistically random in a practical sense. Your question seems more philosophical, though I think at the quantum level things become more or less random whichever way you think about it. Furthermore, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle suggests that we'll never have sufficient technology to measure both the position and momentum of a particle, which I would say is a pre-condition to observing a deterministic process at work on the quantum scale. |
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