bubbadork:All the math in the world can [or can't?]accurately predict deviations, whether by wind or clubface angle or other anomalies. This is precisely why WGT uses (supposedly) random variations controlled by precision, forgiveness, and VEM.
Are you a statistician or a physicist? If the former, you can successfully predict only with massive data sets; if the latter you can only successfully predict with a knowledge of all the variables of the problem. WGT is easter-egging variables everywhere: each piece of your equipment set (clubs, balls, brain-finger calculation/response system...), and game condition variables (wind, terrain, turf, sand, green speed).
As a one-time cryptographer, my understanding is that any computerized random number set is - at best - only quasi-random. Only nature, in all her smiling glory, is totally random. With enough clever techniques and a pricey equipment set, one can get pretty close to absolute randomness; I doubt WGT has gone to that extent.
Well, there is the performance consistency of my R11 8 iron - a pretty fair random number generator, lol.
bubbadork: Despite that fact, you can take it to the bank that there are rules. Even a theory of total chaos is, ultimately, bound by rules.
Indeed the theory is bound by the rules. The chaos (by definition) knows no bounds or rules.
Here's to Heisenberg! Einstein reputedly groaned after a chat with Werner - his head hurt.