God's Dice

NB: 

1- This blog post is a little complicated. Would be easier if you are a quantum computing nerd.

2- It was first written 3 days ago

After some reflection, I got some insight into the seeming paradox I arrived at yesterday.

(Check yesterday to understand the paradox)

First, God does play dice. Sorry Einstein.

But this is good news! We know what a dice is!

We know if God rolls a dice, there is a 1 of 6 chance of any side showing up.

If God played goobledeegook, we'd throw up our hands and forget all about quantum physics.

But dice, dice we understand.

God also tosses coins and spin particles. Biased and Unbiased.

In this way, Quantum Physics is sort of "pseudo-random". We can know the probabilities.

Take the double slit experiment.

There is a 50% chance of photons going through one slit and a 50% chance of going through the other. It's like there is an infinite number of Everett worlds in which the photon goes through 1 or the other but they are matched 50-50. Leaving nearly zero worlds out of all that infinity, in which the photon goes through neither of the holes.

The same goes for inference of stock prices, insurance premiums, name it. We know the probabilities based on historical data curves and market behaviour.

The market may be unpredictable, but some "probabilistic predictability" is created by the fact that humans today will behave like humans tomorrow by and large. They will eat daily, drive to work, and debate politics.

Trends emerge on the time frames of these activities, and how behaviour changes towards christmas vs towards mid year.

The only thing humans can do before-hand is decide. Collapse wave functions. Like a homicide, a decide kills something - alternatives.

Just like how we kill many infinite world alternatives by choosing to do a double slit experiment instead of a triple slit experiment.

So does the quantum world help us tell the future better?

Indeed. For it has two cards up it's sleeve more than any quantum enthusiast knows about.

Other than the superposition one introduced here in the dice/coin analogies.

Entanglement - sort of making the two different infinite worlds of the double slit affect each other , and interference - where the worlds add themselves up and could then cough up a useful answer (like another world) for us at the end.

All without us leaving the comfort of our own single world.

Simply splendid.

(Reference to many worlds idea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation)

P.S. One thing we know for sure is that in the future, people will want to tell the future.