Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Randomness is far more profound than it appears to be. Probably it doesn't even belong to the real (materialized) world.


How so? I also find randomness profound but not sure what you mean but not belonging in the materialized world. Particle decay/Radiation is a pretty random process I believe?


Possibly connecting random events to time, which is not material.


The transformation of a particle into two more basic particles is absolutely material.


Some confusion? I was saying "time is not material".

In my conception time is made out of events, and the events are I suppose all material, and all have probabilities. So maybe time follows inevitably from matter. But I think it exists in its own right as a phenomenon that isn't material. There are such things. Knowledge is another one.


Noether's Theorem states that it is fundamental to our real world - or else the apparent, fundamental symmetries of our physics are wrong.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: