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| Oct 4, 2023 at 17:14 | answer | added | don't train ai on me | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 21:21 | answer | added | Andrew Steane | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | It does seem a little odd that a question this fundamental has received no answers from anyone with a significant amount of reputation. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | user1062760 | I'd say from our current laws of physics the universe as we know it is completely deterministic as any truly random event would mean generation of information from nothing, which would be a violation of conservation of information. But it's very possible that one day we might find that there are some exception to law of conservation of information and that might help to formulate that all the information created during big bang came from nothing | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 17:18 | answer | added | Andrea | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 0:12 | comment | added | JDługosz | @Mr.Flibble you ask If anyone can come up with a case that two closed systems that are in the same state can diverge, I'd love to hear it. example: two neucli of the same specis. Radioactive decay is random. | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 23:43 | history | edited | Nikos M. |
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 12:22 | answer | added | user56903 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 10:41 | answer | added | Nikos M. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 2:50 | history | edited | MRashid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2013 at 22:30 | history | edited | Colin McFaul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | Mr. Flibble | I can't answer due to the question being protected. Answer too long for SE comment. Here's my 2c. pastebin.com/raw.php?i=eAyhc5z2 | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 12:41 | comment | added | John Nicholas | It is philosophical. You have introduced a conceptual dualism which was derived from the world which presents a logical disjunction and then asked which side of the disjunction the world represents. Both and neither. The answer invariably is that neither concept is adequate to describe it. Its far more subtle and the concepts are not actually mutually exclusive if they are to be modified to fit into the world. Its a problem of where do you stop the chain of reasoning. Physics is removal of non-deterministic notions. | |
| May 15, 2013 at 16:46 | comment | added | Ruud | Some topics that you might find iteresting include the concepts of locality (information cannot travel faster than the speed of light), realism (things exist even when not observed), determinism, and their relation through Bell’s theorem. | |
| May 10, 2013 at 16:10 | answer | added | agemO | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 10, 2013 at 14:51 | history | protected | Qmechanic♦ | ||
| May 10, 2013 at 14:35 | answer | added | Groda.eu | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 10, 2013 at 8:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/332768675864137729 | ||
| May 8, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." Stephen Hawking | |
| May 8, 2013 at 15:00 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Possible duplicate: physics.stackexchange.com/q/7/2451 | |
| May 8, 2013 at 14:55 | history | edited | Řídící | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2013 at 14:46 | answer | added | Alex A | timeline score: 56 | |
| May 8, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | David H | A subtle point about the TDSE: it is deterministic in the sense of differential equations, and the only thing it determines is the wave-function. If the wave-function itself is tantamount to reality, then quantum mechanics (and any quantum mechanical universe) can be said to be deterministic. If, on the other hand, the wave-function is merely a probability amplitude for classical state variables, then reality is stochastic. Deterministic randomness is not deterministic. | |
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| May 8, 2013 at 14:27 | comment | added | MoonKnight | Order this book, take two weeks off work and enjoy: amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/… | |
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| May 8, 2013 at 14:12 | history | asked | MRashid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |