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		goatlover on Aug 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis... > But radioactive decay is supposed to be random. As in, every atom is the the same, but some, randomly, decay. That never made sense to me. Because there is no known mechanism such as your hypothetical precise robot with perfect situational knowledge to determine the radioactive decay.

dr_dshiv on Aug 13, 2019 [–]

But is there a "cause" of the decay? It is random, nah? Unlike the causes of the coin flipping heads, which can be modelled as mechanical interactions

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