The point is that one global hidden variable could account for every local hidden variable; and saying that “our universe is one of many possible universes” is equivalent to saying that there is some choice “somewhere at the bottom.”
My point is there’s no need for collapse, just deterministic mechanisms that are distributed as though random.
Taking one more stab at rephrasing: We must live in some possible universe; presumably out of many. This one universe is entirely deterministic, but no one knows exactly which one it is so our expectations seem random.
Hmmm… would this mean that quantum events aren’t “random”, they’re pseudorandom, like the “random number generators” used by computers? You can predict them if you know the algorithm used to generate them and the seed value, but if you don’t know them, it’s very hard to figure out what they were.
For example, here’s a string of pseudorandom digits:
Well, just so long as you’re not invoking local hidden variables...
The point is that one global hidden variable could account for every local hidden variable; and saying that “our universe is one of many possible universes” is equivalent to saying that there is some choice “somewhere at the bottom.”
My point is there’s no need for collapse, just deterministic mechanisms that are distributed as though random.
Taking one more stab at rephrasing: We must live in some possible universe; presumably out of many. This one universe is entirely deterministic, but no one knows exactly which one it is so our expectations seem random.
Hmmm… would this mean that quantum events aren’t “random”, they’re pseudorandom, like the “random number generators” used by computers? You can predict them if you know the algorithm used to generate them and the seed value, but if you don’t know them, it’s very hard to figure out what they were.
For example, here’s a string of pseudorandom digits:
718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353
If you don’t recognize the algorithm used to generate them, it looks like the kind of random digits you get by rolling an unbiased ten-sided die.
Yes, this is exactly what I’m getting at. My inspiration was that there is a mathematically precise way of finding such a “random” sequence.
Incidentally, did you recognize the sequence I posted?
EDIT: WOW I’m dumb, it’s the decimal expansion of e.