Re:The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bri...
by effie on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:33PM
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Determinism is an idea of physics based on unchanging God/reality, but science is more general. Science can work without determinism, there are probabilistic / statistical methods, or hypotheses of effective physical laws changing in time. In quantum experiments, things happen at whims of nature and some such experiments do not produce similar results when repeated, but look random.
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Re:The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bri...
by mensetmanusman on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:29PM
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‘Randomness’ with perfectly defined statistics and distributions is fascinating...