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Questions tagged [randomness]

Randomness covers questions having to do with the concept of randomness in physical processes and questions about determinism vs indeterminism or interpretations thereof. Question related to concepts of probability may also use this tag.

Randomness covers questions having to do with the concept of randomness in physical processes and questions about determinism vs indeterminism or interpretations thereof. Question related to concepts of probability may also use this tag.

Usually the tag may be coupled with especially in questions involving the concept of probability and physical processes or .

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True randomness?

I am a physics high-school student so my knowledge is not very deep on the subject. We started learnning about quantum mechanics and on some processes that my teacher described as random. I began to think on the concept of randomness and question…
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Is there a mechanism for randomness?

I couldn't think where to post this, so I decided physics is the closest to answering this. Apologies for my amateur understanding of QM (0 understanding of QFT), I learn on free time by internet, so prepare for silly misconceptions. If I understand…
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What is randomness? Can we simulate randomness?

I came across a computing function which gave me random output from a group of numbers. I've asked this question on StackOverflow. Do we really understand what is randomness? We can calculate probability of a particular event, we can plot the…
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Do physicists accept true randomness in nature?

I am not a physicist but I've started studying the subject and noticed that terms like "random", "randomness", "randomly" are widely used when talking about nature. For example, random movement of atoms, random fluctuations, random path of an…
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explanation of random motion of multiple pendulums

is there an explanation of random motion of multiple pendulums , it seems to be 'orderly chaos'. example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8ciWSgc_k
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Biased or Unbiased Random

I am confused with the concept of completely random actions. I was thinking of a very common statistical experiment in which we have a device or black box which randomly chooses between 1 and -1. If we infinitely do this processes, we will have set…
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Examples of "Random Access" in real world

In a Random Access Memory (RAM) an index (usually represented in binary) is used to access a location of memory and retrieve/store a value. Are there natural physics processes, interactions, reaction, ... that can resemble a "random access" to…
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Can plasma in a Plasma ball be used as a source of true randomness?

This is just a thought but I've been staring at the Plasma Ball on my desk for a while and after a while I realized the plasma rays/waves/beams seem to be generated in a different spot each time so I thought, is the spawn point of a plasma ray truly…
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