Quote from: GSpgh on December 09, 2019, 01:15:20 PM

Quote from: deisik on December 07, 2019, 12:29:56 PM

Quote from: GSpgh on December 07, 2019, 01:38:40 AM

Universe is expanding and has been doing so since the Big Bang. So it can't be in one big clump. It would probably be a very neatly organized sparse cloud of particles if not for randomness, which caused it to stick into various blobs

Should it be construed in the way you think that the distribution of galaxies in the Universe is not random?

That's literally the opposite of what I said. This discussion is going in circles now

That was and had been in fact intended as a question because you didn't say explicitly whether you consider the existing irregularities (I intentionally avoid the word patterns here) in the distribution of galaxies across the Universe as random. Truth be told, you are quite vague and ambiguous on this, deliberately or otherwise. In simple terms, make yourself clear on the matter

That's all I ask (note, not claim, assert, or challenge)

Quote from: GSpgh on December 09, 2019, 01:15:20 PM

Quote from: deisik on December 07, 2019, 12:29:56 PM

There's not only one pattern in a random distribution as there are many, and their very existence makes a random distribution somewhat less random, from a practical point of view (superstitions or otherwise)

Again, that doesn't fit the basic dictionary definition of random. By definition random doesn't have patterns. If you're seeing patterns then your randomization algorithm is not good (which technically is the case with almost any human-devised algorithm) or you're not actually seeing patterns

What dictionary definition of random do you refer to?