Timeline for Why is it impossible to produce truly random numbers?
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| Dec 10, 2011 at 3:28 | comment | added | Alex | That's like saying eventually someone is going to make a machine that can solve the halting problem because someone said it was impossible. It's not a matter of finding the equation, it actually is random according to all the experiments that have been run and that math that backs it up. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 22:38 | comment | added | CaffGeek | @DavidThornley, I knew that was the wrong word to use. I think we know what I was trying to say. Nearly whenever someone says something is impossible, someone else eventually proves them wrong. It's human nature. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 22:28 | comment | added | David Thornley | @Chad: There is no formula in the usual sense; that was ruled out by the EPR experiments. It's certainly conceivable that it's all deterministic, but not in any easily understandable way. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 21:49 | comment | added | CaffGeek | @DavidThornley, ...until someone figures out the formula. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 21:43 | comment | added | David Thornley | As a part-time physics geek, generators based on quantum events are (as far as we've been able to tell) truly random. People who dislike randomness have been trying to take the randomness out of quantum mechanics since it started, and all it's done is pile up more evidence that it's truly random. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 20:54 | history | answered | Unkwntech | CC BY-SA 3.0 |