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I want to share an article I read, Youdopia. It is about how the Einsteinian axiom, “God does not play dice with the universe.” seems to be completely untrue. I won’t waste your time trying to summarize something that is innately profound, so I’ll give you a teaser quote, and a link to the article in Seed magazine. I think it is the Coolest Shit Ever.

Now randomness, believe it or not, is synonymous with information. If you have 1-million digit number whose digits are random, to remember the number you have to write down every single digit. This is because a random number contains a lot of information. By contrast, a 1 million digit number that consists of 9 repeated over and over—that is, a non-random number—is easy to remember. It contains hardly any information at all.

So it is the randomness of quantum theory that explains where the information of our universe comes from. Since the big bang, every quantum event—every atom randomly deciding to go along one path or another, every photon deciding to be spat out by an atom not spat out—has injected information into the universe. A fantastically enormous amount of information.  — Read the whole shebango here.