Re: Surviving Einstein.

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 06/28/03


Date: 27 Jun 2003 23:26:31 GMT


"Simon Johnson" <ckwop@hotmail.com> writes:

]> Show me a "truly random event" and I'll show you a "physical phenomenon
]that
]> you do not fully understand."
]>

]Prediciting the speed of an electron emitted from beta decay.

That one is dead easy if you will accept the probability distribution
for those speeds. The actual value in any given decay cannot be
calculated, it is a random event, just as many quantum events are.