3a. Re: True RNG
Date: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:25 pm ((PDT))
In the end, I guess all events, even in the "quantum" world, could be considered predictable if you know the "rules" of their behavior. Just because there is an "uncertainty principle" in physics today, doesn't mean that we won't find out that it's incorrect in the future and be able to explain events we don't understand or think are unpredictable today.
A background in medicine makes me sceptical of all the things we "know" to be true today - the past has shown too many of them to be incorrect, or at least incomplete knowledge. While the physical sciences are certainly far more precise than the medical "sciences", their history has also shown them to be vulnerable to change or to additional understanding.
If the long-term frequency of an event in VP is consistent with its mathematically predicted frequency, and if the short-term occurrence is unpredictable, isn't that random "enough" for us?
--BG
···
==============