@Morio: Anything, including radioactive decay, that appears random is just that, only an appearance or an illusion. The only reason radioactive decay appears random is because we do not yet have the capability to determine exactly why one particular electron is lost over any other electron. In truth there’s a reason this particular electron is released, it is only that the number of variables in that equation is vast, so vast that it is well beyond our understanding.
Our programmed random equations make use of just one or two variables, so this suggests that it’s easy to make something appear random with a mere two variables. The equation behind radioactive decay likely makes use of a great many variables many of which dating back to the early universe and the time the radioactive element was formed.
@3d solar system builder: As many in the modeling world know it’s pretty easy to generate a cylinder with a few other cylinders sticking out of it and call it a tree. Adding in the variation found in a natural tree is the hard part. Interesting that creating what would appear to be a mathematically perfect tree is a piece of cake, but adding in all those ‘imperfections’ found in nature requires painstaking attention to detail.
The reason behind this is that our creative mind is currently more adept at recreating what we’ve seen then our logical mind is at recreating the equation behind it. In truth what some might call the ‘mathematically perfect tree’ is actually a mathematical simpleton, the trees we see around us in nature are mathematically perfect trees and the number of variables that go into the formation of all those ‘imperfections’ is vast, greater than is our understanding of mathematics at this point.
There are many mathemeticians that believe everything in the entire universe can be boiled down to a single equation. I agree.
While I’m sure we could simplify that equation for computational purposes, in the real tree equation everything is a variable, literally everything from the ambient temperature in any given moment during the tree’s growth period to the relative positions of galaxies we don’t yet know exist. Anything that effects the tree is a variable in it’s equation, gravity has an infinite reach so the gravity from a galaxy at the opposite end of the universe is a variable in all equations. Because of this anything that effects the gravity in the galaxy on the opposite end of the universe is also a variable in any given equation here on earth. So a mosquito in a galaxy trillions of lightyears away could just as well be the determining factor as to whether you catch a cold tomorrow or not.
The thing that makes it seem real, the thing that makes it all seem as though we have any control over anything at all is the fact that we do not know that equation. In order to know that equation one would have to possess literally all knowledge, one would have to know literally everything.
P.S. The ultimate answer to everything is easy, it’s 42 as written by Douglas Adams. What we really need to know isn’t the answer, but the question. Anyone can look at something and see the result, finding the equation that created that result is where the real difficulty lay.
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3(1+6+7)=42