What is Random?
There's more over on Veritasium! "What is NOT Random?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMb00lz-IfE SOURCES AND MORE BELOW! My twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce My instagram: http://instagra...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here and Derek.Generate(!)78? That's so random. Or is it?What does it mean to be random?Can anything really be random? What's the most random thing ever?Today let's stop being random and become 'ransmart'.If something is unpredictable,and contains no recognisable patterns, we call it random.So let's begin our hunt for the most random thing with a coin toss.The Australian 50 cent coin is one of the largest coinscurrently in circulation.Coin flips and rolling dice are not intrinsically random,they are only random because of ourignorance. If we could know every initial conditionthe exact forces and properties that play for a particular flip or roll,we could theoretically calculate the result befor...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here and Derek.Generate(!)78? That's so random. Or is it?What does it mean to be random?Can anything really be random? What's the most random thing ever?Today let's stop being random and become 'ransmart'.If something is unpredictable,and contains no recognisable patterns, we call it random.So let's begin our hunt for the most random thing with a coin toss.The Australian 50 cent coin is one of the largest coinscurrently in circulation.Coin flips and rolling dice are not intrinsically random,they are only random because of ourignorance. If we could know every initial conditionthe exact forces and properties that play for a particular flip or roll,we could theoretically calculate the result befor...
