Universe explained by quantum randomness

Universe explained by quantum randomness

Look around you - at the sun in the sky, a tree swaying in the breeze, a woman walking her dog down your street. You may think all these things have a cause. Einstein did. He hated the idea of quantum randomness underlying everything, which is why he declared, "God does not play dice".

Tough, says Stephen Hsu of the University of Oregon in Eugene. "Not only does God play dice with the universe but, if he did not, the complex universe we see around us would not exist at all. We owe everything to randomness."

Hsu came to his startling conclusion by comparing the amount of information in today's universe with that in the first moments of creation. According to standard cosmology, the universe grew enormously in the first split second of its existence, blowing up from a tiny patch of vacuum. "Because the patch was exponentially smaller ...

New Scientist

Just wondering what you guys thingk about this. People have been saying without a creator or if everything was random, it would have not been this advanced. But according to this, it's the exact opposite.

Also if you have the full article and could post it here that would be nice thanks.

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There's a big difference between randomness and non-determinism. QM definately tells us that the microscopic world is non-deterministic in the sense that we can't predict what one individiual particle will do, only the average behaviour of a bunch of particles. This doesn't mean they're random though - we can predict that average behaviour with startling accuracy.

Nothing is random, every outcome has a determining principle as to why it has arrived at its current state.

Random to our own minds and scientific instruments, yes, but not random itself.