Luck

 

I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good

I’d rather be lucky than good,
Tough than pretty,
Rockin in the country than rolling in the city.
Spend my life rolling them dice,
Instead I’m living like everybody says I should.
I’d rather be lucky, rather be lucky than good.

Would you rather be lucky than good?

Einstein’s discomfort with Quantum Mechanics was that ”God does not play dice with the universe.”  His objection was the random element of luck in Quantum Mechanics. This random element is summed up in the Heisenberg  Uncertainty principle, which says that there is an intrinsic random error such that if you know the momentum exactly, then you can not know the position exactly,  and if you know the position exactly, then you can not know the momentum exactly. The minimum position is also known as the Planck length. A hyperbolic universe, spacetime, is consistent with this minimum, Planck, length.[1]

If you know the minimum time, and the minimum energy density,  then the Planck length is an outcome of the Einstein field equations for general relativity and a hyperbolic universe. Thus the quantum randomness is a consequence of the hyperbolic universe. It means that we can not construct equations in this universe that can eliminate this randomness. This means that God DOES play dice with the universe, but he uses a loaded dice in that he knows the outcome, but we can’t. If you want to be like God, then you don’t need to be lucky.

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[1] Mabkhout, S.A., 2012. The infinite distance horizon and the hyperbolic inflation in the hyperbolic universe. Phys. Essays, 25(1), p.112.