Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
RANDOM CHANCE
For "random chance" to be real, as some among us, seem to contend, in certain sectors of science, philosophy, other fields, there are an amazing number of repetitions.
This thought came to mind when I was reading about the annual Orionid meteor shower yesterday and learned the Haley's Comet returns to earth every 75 years. Cicadas, of course , come back above ground every 17 years. "Years" themselves recur ; as do days, months, hours, seconds; heartbeats, speculations.
Come to think of it, very few things are certifiably random; thus they are exceptional; unless life itself is also exceptional, in which case, we find ourselves right back at the beginning, where we began with random chance, and its antipodal adherents' views of determinism. I am constrained to accept both, random and determinism as valid.
Their covalent validity is reified, is verified, in quantum physics, in quantum mechanics. In these, form remains in one place but that unique form's particular substance is instantly teleported across the cosmos of spacetime to its dyadic partner by condign divine design .