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A Random Universe?

Its funny how much randomness defines our lives and everything around us. And its funnier how we try to find order in all this randomness - in our lives and in things around us. We, as humans are designed not to really understand randomness. Our abilities are limited when it comes to understanding or truly grasping the randomness around us. And since we can't understand it, we assume its non-existence or maybe give less importance to its existence. This is more evident in the financial markets more than anything. People make charts, and graphs and do technical analysis to make sense of it all. But rarely do they beat the flip of a coin. Its in our nature to try to make sense and we spend a lot of energy doing that. In fact, a hell lot of energy and resources. But if we really do learn to accept randomness it will save mankind a lot of trouble and wasted resources. We make plans, only to see them fall apart. And the falling apart causes us misery and takes an emotional toll. And th...