Quantum randomness and more

I have an ongoing discussion with my friend Weirdzo over at #dextrose (EFnet IRC) who pretty much disagree with me most of the time regarding science, this is also one of the reasons I respect him.  After thinking some things through I thought it was time to try and provoke people on a global scale for the sake of science and see how it pans out.  I’ll start out by humbly stating the following:

E = mc² E = mq (where q = quantum unidentified)

Yes, you read it right, I’m changing the mass-energy equivalence formula. This will be an attempt to back my theory by ramblings rather than concrete evidence, but don’t let that deflate your curiosity to read on. I don’t really believe in anything relying on time (perhaps related to my constant problem being “on time” in real life). However, I do believe in motion, everything around us is moving, especially on the scale of quantum mechanics. In my opinion time is a construct invented by us to cope with our limitations and means to experience the world around us. In that sense it is time (yes, I’m unfortunately as indoctrinated by the concept of time as the next person) to remove  c² (lightspeed squared) from the equation. If we necessarily need to stick with a constant (though lightspeed isn’t even constant since it is affected by gravity), why not use something that is faster than light to begin with instead of compromising it by a factor of two? I was reading about quantum entanglement and how it is at least 10,000 faster than the speed of light, that is better but still not good enough. What if we could rule out the speed factor entirely and just use a constant that makes sense in the quantum world? Keep that thought in mind, let me know when you figured out what to use.

This brings me to another matter which requires my immediate flame. Why do so many people in the quantum field of expertise seem so afraid of using the word random? Do we really need to invent parallel universes just to sleep at night knowing that nothing can be random? I tried to find the core of this unfunded fear and came up with two suggestions; first off it breaks the world of  determinism and then there is that old famous quote by Albert Einstein: “God does not play dice” which makes me think of the dark ages and how that affected science. While contemplating this I was reminded how the Roman empire lacked zero in their numeral system, and the effects it had on their math. I think it is high time we face reality and accept true randomness. We could always sleep comfortably at night knowing we invented a proper digit (or symbol) to represent it.

BTW: I’m a father of two wonderful kids and see randomness every day in their lives (while my own is getting way too predictable).