Is the universe completely random?

Question:According to scientists, there is order in chaos. Ponder that thought.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: According to scientists, there is order in chaos. Ponder that thought.

As far as our understanding of quantum dynamics goes; yes it is.

According to quantum theory, yes.

Quantum theory = yes
General Relativity = maybe

Resolving this (Theory of Everything) would answer your question. Worth meditating on, if you have na answer, you can have a Nobel prize.

No everything is what it is and can be nothing more.
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To grasp the axiom that existence exists, means to grasp the fact that nature, i.e., the universe as a whole, cannot be created or annihilated, that it cannot come into or go out of existence. Whether its basic constituent elements are atoms, or subatomic particles, or some yet undiscovered forms of energy, it is not ruled by a consciousness or by will or by chance, but by the Law of Identity. All the countless forms, motions, combinations and dissolutions of elements within the universe—from a floating speck of dust to the formation of a galaxy to the emergence of life—are caused and determined by the identities of the elements involved. Nature is the metaphysically given—i.e., the nature of nature is outside the power of any volition."

"The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made,"
Philosophy: Who Needs It, 25. - Ayn Rand

which is more random?

10010100010100010100010101001001000101...

or

11110100000110011111100000001101010001...

Well actually the second one. Astronomically large sequences make unusual patterns. The definition of random is with out order. But order can arise from chaos. We all marvel (most of us do) at how hard it would be for life to come together to make something so complex as us. It really does not surprise me, I mean complex to what? We could be vastly more complex than we are now, with hyper bodies that kept us alive for thousands of years.

I don't know if anyone could really say for sure. I think it's random, but what do I know?

My understanding of quantum is that it is not total chaos. There does exist a norm. Nothing is until the wave function collapses into reality. It will usually follow a norm but as Sportin' Life said: "It ain't necessarily so." It could take off on all sorts of tangents. Matter exists in its most organized form as crystal and in its most chaotic form as gas. Life exists somewhere between. On the edge of chaos. We do exist. if it were totally random we could not.

I'm riding the crest

Of Schrodinger's wave

Immersed

Splashing and tumbling

As it collapses

On the edge of chaos

No, it isn't. The universe is filled with patterns. The universe is filled with patterns that repeat. A pattern is not random. A series of the same pattern is not random.

scientist have discovered many patterns in the universe. take fractals or any math theorem our brains can think of....random..no...not understood...yes.

no. its organized chaos beyond the human understanding, thats why most scientist will say that the universe is completely random. what do they know, right?

God does not exist.

If so we are doing a very good job of fooling ourselves into thinking that it is not.

yes, "it is a random universe to which we bring meaning."
But what then happens to a meaningful universe. Does it gain
any consciousness now that we know most of it contains "dark" energy and "dark" matter? And what then occurs to a universe that displays synchronicity? What is so random about quantum entanglement. Do we manifest our thoughts? Does the madman manifest hallucinations. Will I ever learn how to shut my mouth?