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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7598355" data-attributes="member: 6906155">I've been to grad school (PhD Astrophysics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology).Einstein had always believed, like pretty much every other scientist of is time, in the Newtonian clockwork universe, where a single cause A always mapped to a single effect B. His own research into quantum mechanics directly contradicted that belief, by showing that a cause could lead to multiple effects, with no way to determine which - randomness was fundamental to the universe, whether you accept the Copenhagen Interpretation or not (personally, I lean towards the &quot;many worlds&quot; interpretation).In recent years the rise in religious fundamentalism has lead to attempts to explain away observations and restore the clockwork universe, but that belongs with the flat earthers a climate change deniers. People tend to believe what they want to believe, and try to adjust the evidence to fit. Einstein was better than that by allowing the evidence to challenge his core beliefs.But the bottom line is randomness is part of the universe, and outcomes are fundamentally unknowable. D&amp;D's dice rolling is a fair way to simulate that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 7598355, member: 6906155"] I've [I]been[/I] to grad school (PhD Astrophysics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology). Einstein had always believed, like pretty much every other scientist of is time, in the Newtonian clockwork universe, where a single cause A always mapped to a single effect B. His own research into quantum mechanics directly contradicted that belief, by showing that a cause could lead to multiple effects, with no way to determine which - randomness was fundamental to the universe, whether you accept the Copenhagen Interpretation or not (personally, I lean towards the "many worlds" interpretation). In recent years the rise in religious fundamentalism has lead to attempts to explain away observations and restore the clockwork universe, but that belongs with the flat earthers a climate change deniers. People tend to believe what they want to believe, and try to adjust the evidence to fit. Einstein was better than that by allowing the evidence to challenge his core beliefs. But the bottom line is randomness is part of the universe, and outcomes are fundamentally unknowable. D&D's dice rolling is a fair way to simulate that. [/QUOTE]

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