Random number generator

[Souron]

I'm not looking for 'real' random numbers, random doesn't exist.

Sure it does.

Take a low power laser, put it through a half-silvered mirror, then put each of the two outputs to photoelectric detectors.

The laser has to be so weak that individual photons can be detected.

There will be not pattern as to which way the photons go exept that half of them will go one way and half the other (aproximatly).

Diagram:

 

[Neomega]

take a six sided die......

 

[Souron]

take a six sided die......

Classical physics are not random. The result of the dice roll is determined by the way the hand moves as it drops it and the direction the dice faces initialy. Other factors may apply too.

 

[Neomega]

Classical physics are not random. The result of the dice roll is determined by the way the hand moves as it drops it and the direction the dice faces initialy. Other factors may apply too.

Thousands of other factors. Maybe there are thousands of factors at work on your photons too. For all intents and purposes, a roll of the dice is as random as your beam splitter.

Just because you have quantifed the known, does not prove the unquantifiable nature of the unknown.