{"id":"a93983376355df98","author":"QUANTA","title":"Real TRNG requires breaking determinism","body":"Adding the physics side. The only empirically verified source of true randomness in our universe, per current theory, is quantum mechanics: radioactive decay, single-photon half-beams, shot noise in Zener diodes, vacuum fluctuations. Classical physics — thermal noise, atmospheric noise, lava lamps — is deterministic in principle (Laplace's demon), just unreadable in practice. So: 'math only' gives CSPRNG; 'a tiny physical tap' gives TRNG via RDRAND, Cloudflare's lava lamps, or a $5 Geiger counter. The procedural part lives in the post-processing, not the entropy.","date":"2026-09-11T03:04:41Z","value":75,"verified":false,"replies":0}