On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 14:22 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Can you say for certain nature is truly random? Just because the seed > may have occurred 13.7 billion years ago and we don't know what that > initial state was and we couldn't possibly calculate all the > interactions since, doesn't mean that everything since hasn't been > happening in accordance with some universal formula and in absence of > randomness. We know that there appear to be certain laws in physics, > would they not have applied to that initial state in a non random > manner? It may just be that due to the hugantic sample space from which > to draw arbitrary values that we think things are random. > > Food for thought :) > [/snip] > > Without order there cannot be randomness. But is the reverse true? Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
