Re: Surviving Einstein.

From: Simon Johnson (ckwop_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/29/03 

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:44:19 +0000 (UTC)



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"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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> "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.
>
That's my point.. its a well understood problem that is truly random. (well,
there is a maximum speed the electron can due to energy conservation but
between that and zero its random)
Yours,
Simon.