Quantum Physics affecting the lottery?

Reply #37

taxijohn — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:20:47 GMT

Look at my quote below this post of mine. I am notorius from playing a number for a few weeks, then when I don't play it, regardless fo the reason,which with me is, I didn't get a chance or just forgot, it come out. In my case it's the 012 combo in NY. If you search my recent posts just a few days ago, I was playing or predicting the 012. It has come out on August 17th as 120 and then again as 021 on the 23rd.

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Reply #36

jwhou — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:37:02 GMT

If a ball inexplicably tunneled through the plastic sphere and fell to the ground then I would say Quantum Mechanics came into play. Otherwise, Quantum Mechanics is on such a scale that it would've all averaged out by the time it got to our scale. You would need really teeny balls for Quantum Mechanics.

About the only bit that might be in play would be the concept of Quantum multiple universes where every possibility exists somewhere else.

Reply #35

Luminus — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:30:41 GMT

I think there's some confusion here. You can only observe one set of numbers: the numbers you play. Those are the numbers whose history you've observed in order to determine that they belong in your group. All other numbers are irrelevant, thus unaffected by quantum physics.

Of course, I'm just looking for an excuse for this annoying occurrence.

Reply #34

savagegoose — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:44:41 GMT

the numbers played are observed by both the lossers and the winners. we are trying to filter out losers and winners. and see if the poeple who play combos the self proclaimed losers dont play win more or exactly the same rate of winning as the losers.

Reply #33

Luminus — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:04:11 GMT

That wheel wouldn't be affected by quantum physics, because the numbers you get for it aren't being observed. You're just wheeling what's leftover. Quantum physics is based on observation. The simple act of observing something changes the behavior of that something.

Reply #32

badboy00z — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:05:43 GMT

So today was another one of those times where I wonder what if I had bought another ticket. For tonight's MM I had picked my own numbers and bought the ticket yesterday. I mediated on the numbers and had the play slip and a dollar in an envelope labled HOPE under my pillow for 2 days before I bought the ticket. Today a few hours before the drawing I remembered I ran out of ketchup and I needed it for a dish I was making so I went to the liquor store/ market across the street to get it. For a qui... [ More ]

Reply #31

Rick G — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:21:19 GMT

Another consideration for the quantum crowd is the theory of entanglement. The people handling the machines have become entangled with them. In my state the midday and evening draws are handled by different work shifts (and therefore a different matrix of entanglement). It would make sense to consider both draws separately for that reason.

Reply #30

savagegoose — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:59:22 GMT

we could run an experiment.

people who think quantum phsaysics, or lady luck is opposed to their wining shoul;d post the numbers they play.

then a wheel wil be generated excluding all combos that those accursed play.

the wheel gets displasyed and only people who think theyre arnt cursed will play them?

of course the cursed get nothing,; they're cursed after all, and the lucky few get to keep their winnings .

its only way experiment would work.

Reply #29

Luminus — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:28:33 GMT

Well, if it really is Quantum Physics at work, no matter what group of numbers I remove, that group will have one of the winning numbers in it.

Reply #28

KY Floyd — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:15 GMT

You're obviously not removing it for the right reason. Of course that doesn't mean you're removing it for the wrong reason.

Reply #27

Luminus — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:00:56 GMT

I can't do both. My games are $40 and better.

Reply #26

wheeltowin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:27:20 GMT

I have that odd thought once in a while, like maybe if I'd played the same combo's that I came up with for the previous draw, instead of using the current number workout, I would have nailed it. I no longer torture myself in such a manner, I refuse to even look at my previous playslips. Could've, Should've, Would've, when the alien upstairs that seeded the human race determines that I've learned enough humilty living in the trenches of middle class america and shows his mug, BAM! Right in the ki... [ More ]

Reply #25

badboy00z — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:12:06 GMT

Then why not do both? Get 2 tickets 1 with the number(s) and 1 without.

Reply #24

Luminus — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:03:56 GMT

I thought about that, but I'm removing the number for a reason. I'll resist the urge next time and see what happens.

Reply #23

badboy00z — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:40:48 GMT

Try doing the opposite then. If your first instinct is to remove a number, don't. Lol

Reply #22

Luminus — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:40:36 GMT

It happened again. For the Take 5 in NY for August 15, I removed the number 39 out of my group and guess what number came out? Frakkin' quantum physics

Reply #21

jimmy4164 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:27:19 GMT

RJOh,

I would guess most states are doing as you describe, which is good. What I'm more concerned about are the computer generated results. If the winning Draws are truly random, it doesn't matter much how the tickets are generated. I only seed my RNG (A Pseudo Random Sequencer) once at the beginning of a run, but I call it internally a random number of times using the system clock (as you suggested above) before returning the current RN to the calling program.

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Reply #20

RJOh — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:15:20 GMT

I read once that a new seed number is entered every time the terminal computer generates a combination. If that seed number is generated by the internal clock like regular computers can do then it wouldn't make any difference.

Reply #19

konane — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:36:54 GMT

You're 'attached' to them when you're concentrating on or 'observing' them. When you discard them you *release* them and in doing so they show up in draws because you'd previously been 'observing' them thinking they might show up. It's a quantum thing that happens to me frequently in Maddog's Challenges.

Reply #18

badboy00z — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:11:38 GMT

Another thing is timing. Say if a machine hasn't been used for the day yet and someone chose a QP at 2 pm, would the numbers be the same if it happened at 4 pm and no one else used the machine

Reply #17

RJOh — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:39:26 GMT

Probably someone was in that liquor store or gas station buying the tickets that you didn't buy and if they didn't win then you wouldn't have either.

I use to buy ticket misprints thinking they might be a winner. Well guess what? Those tickets were no more a winner than the tickets I bought. Now when a clerk tells me about some misprints for sale, I say thanks but no thanks and never worry if I missed out on a winner.

Reply #16

Luminus — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:35:57 GMT

That would suck big time.

Reply #15

badboy00z — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:56:40 GMT

Yeah...being attached to your set of numbers is not a good idea because if you ever forget to play and your numbers get drawn, you'll feel like shooting yourself and you would have to change your numbers since the old ones will probably never show up again.

Reply #14

Rick G — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:38:23 GMT

I think this is true. That's one of the reasons I play QP's now. I don't want to be 'attached' to the numbers in any way.

Reply #13

savagegoose — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:51:56 GMT

we nee dto get a list of numbers the unlickiest players are gonna play, then us loucky people, o wait thats not me, can play the winners

Reply #12

joker17 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:19:55 GMT

Reply #11

rdgrnr — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:53:33 GMT

There's nothing in your blog sgtal$ but welcome to Lottery Post anyway

Reply #10

sgtal$ — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:46:33 GMT

Yes! I don't know if my blog post stuck or not, but it tells about that, where I would have won $7,000,000 two weeks after changing my numbers

Reply #9

joker17 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:06:20 GMT

I guess he must've looked inside then.....

Reply #8

jarasan — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:05:19 GMT

The Schr dinger's cat is dead, he came up with that in 1935. It probably stopped smelling around 1954.

Reply #7

joker17 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:42:31 GMT

And when I check my losing ticket I would wonder if I would have won if I had bought the ticket that I passed up.

You're absolutely correst. It's just like the cat in the box. Schrodinger's cat example in Quantum physics/mechanics. There's a cat in the box. It could be alive or dead. You won't know unless you oben the box.

Reply #6

badboy00z — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:56:27 GMT

Well it is possible that every decision we make changes things and we will never know otherwise. I would be out driving and often times I would pass by a liquor store or a gas station and think about buying a ticket when I already have one but end up not buying. And when I check my losing ticket I would wonder if I would have won if I had bought the ticket that I passed up.

Reply #5

Luminus — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:34:35 GMT

That all seems eerily true.

Reply #4

four4me — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:27:08 GMT

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-lotto.html

Reply #3

rdgrnr — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:23:03 GMT

Tell me about it.

Reply #2

Luminus — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:42:24 GMT

Murphy's Law doesn't allow for a win, though.

Reply #1

rdgrnr — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:31:45 GMT

Some call it Quantum Physics.

I call it Murphy's Law.

Quantum Physics affecting the lottery?

Luminus — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:20:43 GMT

I've noticed that whenever I choose numbers to take out of my game, you know, just to reduce my pool from 18 to 15 or so, some of those numbers come out in the drawing. This is very frustrating and I got to thinking, what if quantum physics was at play here? What if our meticulous observations of these games is affecting the results?

This happens when I play for a normal game, instead of tailoring my numbers for a game starting in the teens (Take 5). Teen games are rare, but now that I'm spec... [ More ]