While reading the WikiQuote entry for Niels Bohr I came across a striking picture of the stained glass windows in the spire of the Thanksgiving chapel in Dallas.
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The Thanksgiving Chapel
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As in “God does not place dice”?
I think it’s very hard to know what genuine randomness means. It might be impossible for any finite intelligence to predict which of a collection of radioactive atoms will be the next to decay, and yet we might still believe, as I think Einstein did, that deep down the process is deterministic. But if that knowledge is for some reason fundamentally inaccessible to us then aren’t the atoms behaving in a genuinely random way?
This is a book I am currently reading and I think it’s interesting
https://amzn.eu/gU0iMPg
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There are many systems where individual items are effectively random but the macro effect highly predictable. I'm thinking of examples like gas molecules in a container and the relationship between volume, temperature, and pressure.