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Old 06-11-2003, 10:53 AM   #17 (permalink)
Dragonlich
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Originally posted by titsmurf
Yeah. If those particles spin the same way, there must be something that makes them do that. So even though they particles may be responsable for the chaos on our atomic level - there is order in theirs.

Hence: Chaos, and therefor the possibility of something happening independently - and not because it was made to happen by everything else, does not exist.
Those particles are *pairs*. They spin the same way because of that. They are linked, hence they spin the same way. That does not mean that independent particles spin the same way.

However, assuming particles spin the same way: does it mean anything at all? Well, we still can't predict how the particles will spin - we need to see one to know how the other one spins. In short: they spin randomly, even if they spin the same.

If there are a million particles in a given area, and two of those spin the same because they're linked, one can hardly say there's order. The rest of the particles spin independently, and we cannot predict any of those movements.

So that leads us back to chance, again. Did you know there is a small but finite chance that your entire body will suddenly shift two meters to the right at this very instant? That is because of those sub-atomic particles: it is possible, although very, very unlikely. Would you suggest that that event is somehow predetermined, or influenced by something else?

Interesting factoid: it is impossible (as in: IMPOSSIBLE) to predict both the direction *and* the speed of an electron. Cannot be done. Ever.
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