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Is it yet possible to have an equation whose output is completely random?
I know that programming random numbers on a computer is based on a seed (a current time stamp), and is not total random though it is sufficient for the job.
I was thinking that if it were possible to create a program that generated a static plane of random numbers and then convert those numbers into something meaningful (images for instance), then wouldn't it be possible given enough time to find a picture of myself as a baby. If the numbers converted to video then we could watch Neil armstrong land on the moon. I could propose that an entire universe could be discovered within the randomness.
Granted that any such discovery within a random sequence would be infinitesimally small.
I find it fascinating that existence may just be random coincidence and has nothing to do with forces at all.
I know that programming random numbers on a computer is based on a seed (a current time stamp), and is not total random though it is sufficient for the job.
I was thinking that if it were possible to create a program that generated a static plane of random numbers and then convert those numbers into something meaningful (images for instance), then wouldn't it be possible given enough time to find a picture of myself as a baby. If the numbers converted to video then we could watch Neil armstrong land on the moon. I could propose that an entire universe could be discovered within the randomness.
Granted that any such discovery within a random sequence would be infinitesimally small.
I find it fascinating that existence may just be random coincidence and has nothing to do with forces at all.