[MD] Static latching & faith

[Scott Roberts]

DMB,

Scott said:
Rolls of dice do not do the same thing every time, but we regard their
behavior as lawlike...

dmb replies:
Well, apparently you can't even make sense when you're talking about dice.
You invoke Einstein, who famously said "God does NOT play dice" as an
assertion of his belief in the law-like behaviour of the universe, and then
assert that dice act in a law-like way. Even though everybody and his
retarded cousin Lester knows otherwise?

Scott:
They obey known physical laws of motion. And if Einstein believed in the 
law-like behavior of the universe, then that includes rolls of dice, no? 
Obviously he was speaking metaphorically. The only reason we can use dice in 
games of chance is because practically we can't compute where they are going 
to land up, since there are too many variables, but in principle their 
behavior is understood to follow the known *laws* of macroscopic physics. 
What Einstein was objecting to was the idea that in quantum physics such 
behavior may not even be theoretically predictable.

- Scott