"God does not play dice [with the universe]." What do you think Einstein meant when he said this?

Question

I'm just doing a sort of test to see if everyone understands this quote. I've had someone it out of context to debate with me about something it had nothing to do with, and I was pretty motivated by it to post this question.

Have at it!

Answer 1

The world, physically speaking, is deterministic, that you don't use the probabilities that are found in quantum mechanics, but given a set of facts, you can predict the outcome with complete accuracy rather than with probabilities.

Answer 2

each little thing has a logical rationalization there's a reason for each consequence and a reaction for each action for the time of Einsteins time quantum mechanics had shown to be an exceedingly good gadget and had allowed scientist to foretell many stuff with regard to the underlying shape of remember which became into later shown to be authentic, experimentally Einstein meant that, as long as quantum mechanics is in keeping with hazard it rather is an incomplete concept ,.,

Answer 3

Arundhati Bakshi needs a mega thumbs up. If you want more info, read on the battle that rages about open VS closed systems. Einstein held tight to the idea that the universe was a closed system and the ideas of probability stem from this .

Answer 4

To me it's saying that dice is a game of luck and completely random, but here in this universe everything happens with reason and with physical laws behind it, like gravity and other forces to back it up. I certainly don't believe it's all about gravity due to the changes of it's levels throughout the universe because Einstein was talking about everything out there and not just planet Earth.

Answer 5

Well, I've never heard it before, so I'll just give my thoughts... out of context.

Playing dice is, essentially, a way of generating random numbers. By saying that God doesn't play dice, means that he doesn't make choices randomly and that he has a hand in how the universe works.

Answer 6

Rolling dice is a gamble -different numbers turn up all the time. God made this universe with precision - nothing 'hit-or-miss' about it at all.

Answer 7

Einstein was expressing the fact that he believed in a God of intelligent design, as opposed to an impersonal God of random mutation.

Answer 8

well there was an answer to einstein by another scientist and he told einstein not to tell god what to do with his Di. But this means that, in my belief, God doesn't gamble with the laws of nature. but if you look at man, something are a gamble.

Answer 9

there are some unified system guarded by unchangeable laws and rules governing this whole world including humans.....nothing left to chaotic coincidence (dice).

Answer 10

What God does is not random, everything has a purpose.