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Please tell me if I'm off-base here, but something I always thought about and have been toying with is the notion that "there's no true random in this universe."

From a particle physics perspective, as an observer in the electromagnetic spectrum, we're always observing through a reference frame based on the speed of light in relation to the observed object. Because it's always in reference to a constant, c, anything perceived at random can theoretically be measured if you had the position of the observer at the time of observation, right?

Am I way off-base here?





Any fan of determinism would need to tackle quantum physics and what seems like unavoidable randomness in it (and there are such theories, but they offer little hope of getting around the randomness from our point of view, since they hide the order from us). The typical example of a random phenomena in nature is radioactive decay. You can't predict when any given nucleus will decay, only the probability that it will happen (which gives the half-life).

Fair enough. Thanks!



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