[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[Veronica Merryfield]

It looks random to us now with our current knowledge and understanding, but one day when we have gained that knowledge and understanding, it would be predictable. 

As I wrote the preceding posting it struck me that I should probably try to find something that from history that seemed random then but now isn't. I would imagine that the alchemists came across much that appeared random that is no longer such and I would imagine  that cave people couldn't make much sense of the stars.
 

On 2010-06-30, at 5:32 PM, Ian Fritz wrote:

> At 06:18 PM 6/30/2010, you wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm - I am not sure that any source is truly random, just that we don't understand it enough.
> 
> Why would you consider radioactive decay not to be random?  :-)
> 
> Ian