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BOB DYLAN - KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR



"Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born. In 1924 he wrote:

"I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only it moment to jump off, but also it's direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist."

A couple of years later he added:

"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But my inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says alot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."

This is one of the originals of the quote that's usually given in the condensed form 'God doesn't play dice.'


As for randomness itself, we have seen how Einstein complained that God did not play dice. At one level this is a confusing statement as there is no evidence that Einstein had a religious faith. It seems that he used the term 'God' more as a compact way of saying 'the rules of how the universe works'. However, those who do believe in God and want their creator to be fair and just are sometimes unhappy with the unfair, uncaring nature of a universe that is so dependent on chaos and fundamental randomness at the quantum level.

Perhaps the best approach if you have a religious faith is to take a step back and say that it is entirely possible to separate the mechanism and the outcome. Just as all the everyday things we use, from computers to cars - and for that matter people - are made up of quantum particles that have weird, random behaviour but at the macro level carry on in a stable, non-random fashion, so we could envisage a creation that has elements of randomness and chaos seen at the macro level follows a creator's plan.

And what of free will? Perhaps the best we can do is to decide that in principle it doesn't exist, but the sensation of it being there is so impossibly real that we might as well think of it as being true. Free will, arguable, is the same as the steady, reliable existence of a chair. In principle it's a mass of random, weirdly behaving quantum particles that don't even stay in one place at a time. But in practice you can sit on it and it will stop you falling to the ground.

That's my impression of free will. But the final decision on whether or not it exists is up to you.

Or is it?"

Excerpts from the book of "DICE WORLD" by Brian Clegg

https://www.brianclegg.net/
 
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Thanks for listening...

Goodnight


SIMPLY RED - IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW

 
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ROBERTA FLACK - THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE

 
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LED ZEPPELIN - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN



"Hence I say that I have not merely the opinion, but the strong belief, on the correctness of which I would stake even many of the advantages of life, that there are inhabitants in other worlds."

~ IMMANUEL KANT
 
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