Posted: Apr 19, 2010 9:23 am
Spearthrower wrote:rainbow wrote:Spearthrower wrote:rainbow wrote:Mononoke wrote:electromagnetism, 2nd law, paulie's exclusion principle, uncertainty principle. That is what comes to my mind?
Thanks, so chemical reactions would be non-Random in the same way as spinning a coin is non-Random.
...subject to physical laws such as gravity, conservation of energy and momentum, force and acceleration.
What is random then?
Does not compute.
Does too!
...unless you're implying that coins are somehow subject to 'randomisation' that doesn't apply to molecules.
How so?
If you read the list of factors you stipulated, you have already answered your own question.
Many contradictory determiners with changing parameters provides the randomness in the 'spinning' coin. Subsequent state not predicted or predictable by the preceding state - it's random. Secondly, a coin toss has only two potential outcomes, so it is a poor analogy.
Every chemical reaction takes place as a result of a collision of molecules (or ions, atoms) moving though space. The chances of this collision are determined by very much the same physical laws that govern tossed coins.