Re:Pseudo-Random vs. True Random (2012)
by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:38AM
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No, just interpretations of QM, Heisenberg doesn't change anything here.
Wikipedia has a nice table[0]. Any deterministic interpretation says that the results of experiment are all entirely predetermined by the entire past history of the universe. This includes Heisenberg's principle, since what you choose to measure is also deterministic, and thus the imprecision is predetermined.
There's nothing in the laws of physics that rules out these interpretations. Thus, we can't definitively say that TRNGs exist in this universe. We also can't say that they don't, of course, since all the interpretations of QM make the same observable predictions and thus are equally likely to be correct.
Wikipedia has a nice table[0]. Any deterministic interpretation says that the results of experiment are all entirely predetermined by the entire past history of the universe. This includes Heisenberg's principle, since what you choose to measure is also deterministic, and thus the imprecision is predetermined.
There's nothing in the laws of physics that rules out these interpretations. Thus, we can't definitively say that TRNGs exist in this universe. We also can't say that they don't, of course, since all the interpretations of QM make the same observable predictions and thus are equally likely to be correct.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...