Fait-divers on randomness

"A random universe is hard to prove.”

“The statistical definition of random would be that two events are entirely unconnected”

"in reality, it’s almost impossible to prove that two events are unconnected"

random = we don't know? (there’s a problem with using the word "random")

Fait-divers on determinism and randomness

"That a deterministic system can express randomness is remarkable and has changed many areas of science"

Fait-divers on grace and randomness

Somewhere by the grace of random chance.

Fait-divers on world randomness

Time itself started to seem like a slow-moving natural disaster, imperceptibly shaking everything apart. Maybe nothing in our world is durable or stable. Maybe everything runs on pure chance.

Fait-divers on randomness and grace

"Random" means "I don't know what happened, I don't know how and what variables play to give this result." At the same time, even if it is not a very scientific concept, "random" is a wonderful concept, like "light" or "grace".

Fait-divers on randomness

Genuine, verifiable randomness — think of it as the property possessed by a sequence of numbers that makes it impossible to predict the next number in the sequence — is extremely hard to come by.