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Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin

Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin

Update: 2025-09-18
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**💥 How Does Something Come from Nothing?**


**Spoiler: It’s All About Chaos, Copies, and Cosmic Coin Tosses 🌀🧬**


At the very start of *everything*, physics points to the **Big Bang** — an unimaginable explosion of space, time, and energy 💣🌌.


From there:


☁️ Energy expands


➡️ Hydrogen forms


⭐ Hydrogen clumps together → stars


🌠 Stars explode → planets are born


🌍 Planets cool → life sparks


🧠 Life evolves → tech emerges


🚀 And here we are, flinging stuff into space like cosmic toddlers with slingshots.


But wait… that tidy story?


Underneath it lies **quantum chaos** ⚛️🌪️.


Quantum physics says the universe isn’t a clean, predictable machine — it’s *random*, like a cosmic slot machine spinning infinite possibilities 🎰✨.


And yet, somehow, from that randomness… order *emerges*.


How?


### 🧬 Enter: **Replication**


In the swirling soup of quantum foam, random patterns appear.


Every now and then, one of those patterns gets lucky — it can **copy itself** 🔁.


### 🧪 Then: **Evolution**


Copies that survive in their environment get to stick around.


The rest? Gone.


That’s natural selection, even at the molecular level 🌱⚖️.


### 🧠 Finally: **Order from Chaos**


The universe *looks* ordered because what survives is what *works*.


But the raw fuel underneath? Still random.


What seems deterministic is just **billions of years of error correction** 🔧.


You flip a coin:


- Heads.


- Tails.


- Heads.


- Heads.


Too many heads? That’s not chance — it’s a loaded coin 🎯.


The more predictable something becomes, the more it’s shaped by history… not randomness.


So, **how does something come from nothing?**


✨ **Randomness births a copy.**


🔁 **The copy survives = replication.**


🔬 **The copy grows = evolution.**


🏆 **The copy fits = selection.**


The universe didn’t need a blueprint.


It needed a spark, some chaos… and the power to repeat 🔄.


And from that?


🌌 *Everything.*



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Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin

Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin

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