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Slimebeast on 27 October 2009
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Final-Fan said:
Slimebeast said:
Final-Fan said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory

This seems to be what you are referring to, but I don't know which of the theories resembles what you are talking about.

Bohm's idea sounds too mystic for my taste.

I don't know which one in particular, but I remember reading about it some time ago and my understanding was that they're playing around with theories about stuff going on in other dimensions that are currently unmeasurable by us.

I wanna clear something up:  is your position that the other dimensions are outside this universe, so none of our physical laws that govern this universe allow randomness, but randomness that happens in the other dimension(s) still happens to us deterministically? 

Or is it that the randomness isn't really random at all, and even if it's coming from another dimension it's still somehow deterministic in origin in the other dimension as well as our own universe? 

I'm confused by your questions.

My position is that there's no randomness. There are possibly other dimensions (that are part of our universe) that we can't currently measure and we don't know their nature (today we can only guess, like string theory does), but if we did know their nature and could detect what's going on there it would explain the 'random' behaviour of particles in the four dimensions that we are able to measure today.