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Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? by jayajay on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:23AM (#13199383)
For example, the double pendulum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum.

That said, the phase space of a double pendulum is bounded.

Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? by duckingtest on Saturday December 17, 2016 @08:21AM (#13200607)
It's really funny that something as simple is impossible to predict over longer times, because you would need perfect information. Yet climate science is 'settled'.
Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? by jayajay on Saturday December 17, 2016 @08:50PM (#13203885)
Take an undamped double pendulum and divide the space up into 2 sections. Suppose you can only check which section the pendulum is every N seconds. Every time you check, you record the value, and over time you build up a sequence of K numbers: 1,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,...

Suppose you know the exact initial state (dx/dt, x) of the pendulum.

What bounds on K and T are required such that the sequence of numbers is asymptotically indistinguishable from a purely random sequence?

So, because of a silly thought experiment, one might think there is very simple order to the apparent randomness. But, as Pauli would say, "it's not even wrong"...