Cheers Red.

My question was not really about what is practically possible, but what it theoretically possible.

For the purpose of this debate it is not important whether we could ever have enough computing power to predict chaotic events.

I am simply asking whether everything in the universe is subject to definable laws or whether things truly happen without cause and are therefore truly random occurrences.

A universe without uncaused random events is determinate.

I am looking for someone to tell me, is radioactive decay uncaused?

Physicist Victor Stenger (Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado) says the following of atomic transitions and radioactive decay of nuclei:

"...we have no current basis for assuming such cause exists."

Doesn't seem to be a definitive answer.

Blacknad.





Blacknad.