Posted by Bob on 11/06/05 13:38

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:00:01 -0600, Serial # 19781010 <none@none.net>
wrote:

>A conversation between Einstein and Bohr over Heisenberg and
>uncertainty...

>Einstein:
>God would not have created such a universe.

>Bohr:
>Al, you really must stop telling God what he can and cannot do.

God does not play dice with the Universe. There is enough manifest
order to demonstrate that to almost anyone with a receptive mind.

But that does not mean the Universe cannot have intrinsically
unknowable quantities when an algorithm does not exist to compute
their value. If the distribution of possible values is flat and they
are independent of one another, then you can say that the quantity is
random. But the process overall is not random. The fact that QM uses
Unitary operators guarantees that.


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A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of
complete fools.

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