A coin toss is neither random, nor evidence of randomness. Like I said: Nobody in history has ever produced any evidence for the existence of randomness. The burden of proof is not on the person who says something doesn't exist. It's on the person(s) who claim(s) it exists. People have conflated...
You are conflating a lack of predictability by humans with randomness. Just because we cannot predict the outcome of a dice or coin-toss, doesn't make it random. A coin toss will always be either heads or tails (and in rare cases stay on it's side). A dice toss will always result in a number...
Not wordplay at all. If you can think of one thing, that I can guess absolutely nothing about... I could not define a single aspect of it... Then you will have proved that randomness exists (but you can't). If you can setup a single experiment that you could absolutely guarantee the exact...
Actually no. Because it has a balancing counterpart that says: There is no evidence for determinism at all in the real world. determinism is a made-up idea. It can exist in our minds as a concept, but it does not actually exist in the physical world we live in...
Your main question is a very good one: "if intelligent life exists in our excel cell and there are at least a vast number of these observable universe cells then it has to unequivocally contain intelligent life right?". Not 100% certainly. There is the statistical analysis (the Fermi paradox)...
This one: There is no evidence for randomness at all in the real world. Randomness is a made-up idea. It can exist in our minds as a concept, but it does not actually exist in the physical world we live in.
:) I was just pointing out, that you're coming out very strong against a perfectly scientific but slightly philosophical reaction that I posted to the same somewhat philosophical question you answered. But you're happy to treat you own opinion as peer-reviewed while mine was deleted right away...
Knowledge is a fancy word for speculation that has not been questioned for a while ;). As a quantum theorist, you should be painfully aware that no one in history has ever: described an initial state perfectly, no-one has ever described a process or experiment perfectly, and no-one has described...
Everything, anyone has ever said on science is ultimately speculation based on incomplete human observations. Nothing is known 100% for sure. Even Einstein was convinced that his own theory must ultimately be wrong. This is the foundation of science and physics. Everything ever discussed has...
Hi all,
Dutch artist with a life long passion for physics and cosmology.
Working on a very cool new project which involves plenty of physics, cosmology and philosophy.
So just enjoying reading up on the latest discovery's and perhaps in-time may share some of my own.