{"id":1871,"date":"2014-06-16T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2017-01-12T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T23:20:40","slug":"randomness-rules-in-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Randomness Rules in Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/issues\/pub\/2014\/4\/quantum-randomness\/1\">Part II of my two-part series<\/a> for <em>American Scientist<\/em> magazine about how to recognize random numbers is now out. \u00a0This part&#8212;whose original title was the one above, but was changed to &#8220;Quantum Randomness&#8221; to fit the allotted space&#8212;is all about quantum mechanics and the Bell inequality, and their use in generating &#8220;Einstein-certified random numbers.&#8221; \u00a0I\u00a0discuss\u00a0the CHSH game, the Free Will Theorem, and Gerard &#8216;t Hooft&#8217;s &#8220;superdeterminism&#8221; (just a bit), before explaining the striking recent protocols of Colbeck, Pironio et al., Vazirani and Vidick, Couldron and Yuen, and Miller and Shi, all of which expand a short random seed into additional random bits that are\u00a0&#8220;guaranteed to be random unless Nature resorted to faster-than-light communication to bias them.&#8221; \u00a0I hope you like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7901139\">[Update: See here for Hacker News thread]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In totally unrelated news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/14\/1307018\/-President-Obama-s-remarks-at-UC-Irvine-commencement-ceremony\">President Obama&#8217;s commencement speech<\/a> at UC Irvine, about climate change and the people who still deny its reality, is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Part II of my two-part series for American Scientist magazine about how to recognize random numbers is now out. \u00a0This part&#8212;whose original title was the one above, but was changed to &#8220;Quantum Randomness&#8221; to fit the allotted space&#8212;is all about quantum mechanics and the Bell inequality, and their use in generating &#8220;Einstein-certified random numbers.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bells-theorem-but-a-flesh-wound","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}