Does order exist?

[DesertFoxCat]

Well, what I meant to say was that the randomness is not only in how we see things, but how they interact with each other as well. Even if you DO know their exact position and movement, you still can't predict what will happen because particles will act randomly to each other. One time you look, one particle might bump into another and scatter, and the next time the exact same particle might harmlessly pass another. There's even an incredibly small chance that all particles might just pass through each other at the same time, and let you walk straight through a wall. I'm not kidding!

Did someone mention Brownian motion? That's go to have something to do with this. And there's also an article about truely random numbers, or numbers more random than using a computer

[CodeCat]

I don't think we need to go any further. Novil just proved the existence of true randomness with his post.

[DesertFoxCat]

Another problem solved by waffles

[Tum0spoo]

I don't think we need to go any further. Novil just proved the existence of true randomness with his post.

I think we have a winner...
http://definecynical.mancubus.net/viewt ... 7&start=30

[CodeCat]

Hmm that's still on topic, even if it is 2 years too late. Now if he had posted about a Norwegian food processing industry, THAT would've been random.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

I still don't get how being uncertain about something qualifyes it as being true random, just unpredictable.

[CodeCat]

Isn't unpredictable and random the same thing?

[Tom Flapwell]

Isn't unpredictable and random the same thing?

An enemy's moves can be hard to predict without being random.

[DesertFoxCat]

Isn't unpredictable and random the same thing?

An enemy's moves can be hard to predict without being random.

In this case, we're talking about events that are impossible to predict, which pretty much matches Google's definition of random.

[Muninn]

Completely off-topic:

Haha, lol. Even the official tourist website of Belgium has a site dedicated to Belgian Waffles: http://www.visitbelgium.com/waffles.htm (sometimes served with whipped cream)

It's something that's apparently a famous part of Belgian culture that's also well known outside it (though I'd personally never heard of it until the Ozy and Millie joke). I'm sure American travel agency's, in order to promote tourism, have used cowboys, France has used the Eiffel Tower and so forth.

[Arloest]

Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

[Muninn]

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...

[Tom Flapwell]

Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

Let me guess: acid rain. (flap flap flap flap)

[Zaaphod]

Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

Let me guess: acid rain. (flap flap flap flap)

That's terrible Tom.

[Holyman83]

hehe