Sentences with phrase «governed by randomness»

When we look at the very basis of all science (that is quantum physics and the math which underlies it) we see that everything truly is governed by randomness and probabilities, not by determinism.

Not exact matches

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

Entanglement is not possible in classical physics, so the nature of the system must be governed by quantum randomness.