Good piece
Good piece
Posted Nov 29, 2012 17:47 UTC (Thu) by davidescott (guest, #58580)In reply to: Good piece by wolfgang
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
a) Classical Mechanics (as described by Newton) is NOT deterministic. See "Space Invaders" or for an example without infinities (but a non-differentiable surface) John D. Norton's work. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal
b) When you claim that QM is non-deterministic you appear to be assuming the Copenhagen interpretation. From a Bohmian perspective QM may still be deterministic, but forever beyond our powers to make a deterministic prediction of its behavior, because of its disturbing non-locality.
Saying that QM processes provide a true source of randomness is really the "Church's thesis" of cryptography. Its hard to see (given our current knowledge of physics) how we could ever arrive at a useful definition of "randomness" that was in any way stronger than what we get by saying that "QM processes are random". In other words when you say that a QM process is truly random you are defining "randomness" not ascribing a property to QM processes.
