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Using a Galton board to model the formative effect of fields on random events - YouTube

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Rupert shows how random, probabilistic processes can be affected by a magnetic field that imposes a pattern on the randomness. The magnets lose no energy in the process, which can be repeated indefinitely. This extract is taken from a dialogue with Mark Vernon on randomness and indeterminism, which you can see in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ-8RMPHM8 So here's the Galton board and, what it is, is, a board with, a series of little, like, pegs, these, hexagonal things and small round steel ball bearings, roll down through the fondant at the top. And every time they hit one of…

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