Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:15:08 08/06/02
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On August 06, 2002 at 14:11:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >On August 06, 2002 at 10:37:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Einstein said "nothing is random". Which means _everything_ can be computed >>if you just know all the variables. :) > >I think that makes perfect sense. I had an astronomy professor say that if we >knew all of the variables that existed between the sun and the earth (and that's >a LOT of variables) then we could accurately predict the weather at any given >time. "Yeah, right..." a Michigander student said :-) Miguel PS: Anyway, that is not so true because it is impossible to know all the variables without altered them. > >As far as proving that nothing is random, that's tough. If you thought you had >something that was completely random, couldn't you make the counter argument >that we haven't found the formula or pattern that makes up the "random" >sequence? > >Russell
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