[sdiy] analog loses another niche

[Ian Fritz]

At 10:22 PM 6/30/2010, you wrote:
>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.

Quantum mechanics is fundamentally probabilistic.  There are no known 
violations of quantum mechanics.  You may speculate that there is something 
deterministic underlying it, but no one has been able to find out what it 
is.  Reality seems to be the opposite of what you are proposing. :-)

   Ian