On Saturday, June 27, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> But surely phenomena in quantum physics and Conways Life are random, but > computable? > GOL is deterministic. Quantum mechanics (under any interpretation) results in true randomness which is not computable. For example, it is impossible to predict if an isotope will decay in a particular time period. Under the MWI quantum mechanics is deterministic: the isotope will definitely decay in one universe and not decay in another. However, an observer cannot predict which universe he will end up in, so non-computable randomness returns, despite the overall determinism. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
