Randomness: Rules for computing classical probabilities might depend on quantum randomness
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For all the deference to “laws” of nature that supposedly govern everything that happens, the truth is that randomness rules the world. Everywhere you look, randomness is at work, in all the processes described by the mathematics of probability. The temperature of the air and the capriciousness of the weather all depend on random collisions of molecules. Computers operate on the principles of information theory, which is rooted in quantifying probabilities. Time rushes onward and disorder replaces order by virtue of the probabilistic second law of thermodynamics. Randomness determines everything from who gets real medicine in clinical trials to which team gets the ball first at football games. Yet despite its pervasive importance, randomness has always remained rather mysterious. It’s not easy to define, and nobody has ever articulated very clearly exactly where randomness comes from — at least not to every scientist’s satisfaction.
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Andreas Albrecht
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| 0.157275 | “We have a plausibility argument that the outcome of a coin flip is truly a quantum measurement,” write Albrecht ... |
| 0.110097 | “We have a plausibility argument that the outcome of a coin flip is truly a quantum measurement,” write Albrecht and Phillips, of the University of California, Davis. “The 50-50 outcome of a coin toss may in principle be derived from quantum physics … with no reference to classical notions of how we must ‘quantify our ignorance.’” |
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Daniel Phillips
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| 0.187099 | “Our claim is that probabilities are only proven and reliable tools if they have clear values determined from the quantum state,” Albrecht and Phillips write. ... |
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For all the deference to “laws” of nature that supposedly govern everything that happens, the truth is that randomness rules the world.Everywhere you look, randomness is at work, in all the proc...
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