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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works (www.livescience.com)

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, because 1) you'd need to know them with incredible precision, and 2) you can't brute force, because you only have one chance. Otherwise you can also brute force anything that's "truly random" as you put it.

That’s like asking “say I hit a button at a very specific time, how would you find that exact time?”

That's the thing, it's not like that. It's more like "say I hit a button at a very specific time and roll hundreds of dice, how would I find that exact time and all the results of those dice".

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Apart from the face that there are absolutely no “dice rolls” involved. They are known deterministic calculations. Because in order to add “dice rolls” you would need randomness. You can’t have a non deterministic calculation involved, because that isn’t how computers work.

You’re essentially saying “take a knowable input, add true randomness, output true randomness using nothing but knowable inputs!”

And you absolutely can brute force it. Why would you have a single chance? Because of arbitrary rules?

As for true randomness, you’re getting a range of “extreme low to extreme high” which isn’t currently brute forcible.