16 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Physics Reduced to Probability
Philosophers have said that if the same circumstances don't always produce the same results, predictions are impossible and science will collapse. Here is a circumstance—identical photons are always coming down in the same direction to the piece of glass—that produces different results. We cannot predict whether a given photon will arrive at A or B. All we can predict is that out of 100 photons that come down, an average of 4 will be reflected by the front surface. Does this mean that phy...Folksonomies: complexity probability
Folksonomies: complexity probability
Feynman explains that probabilities are the best we can hope for in complex systems.