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Re:A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar e... by tomp on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:04AM (#18977523)
> Our current understanding of radioactive decay is that it is 100% random

Isn't it only locally random? I.e. there could still be some global "initial conditions" that make it deterministic (yet unknowable for us)... As in, given a sequence of numbers, there's no way to tell if it was generated randomly or just pseudorandomly (e.g. by RSA/SHA).

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Re:A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar e... by db48x on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:21PM (#18985457)
That would be called a "hidden variable", and it's already proved that no theory involving hidden variables can be correct.
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