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>What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic?

Sorry, I didn't take my crazy pills today.

To me it is very clear that the question involves physics from the start.

I suggest you read the HN guidelines, you are quite abrasive and aggressive in your posts.

Regarding your post about entropy. The reason it does not apply is because entropy is a concept from statistical mechanics which is about the statistics of ensembles of many (even non-classical) particles. It's a concept invented after Newton dynamics, but does not apply to describing the equations of motion of a single particle (try to define the entropy of the single particle system). Time reversal is a core tenent of Newton dynamics.

Read the title of this post, and the title of the question in the exchange, I will post it yet again, *sigh*

>What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic?

Is "statistical mechanics" contained within "classical physics"?

Yes or no? No need for a nonsensical philosophical essay.

Maybe you should read my most, I didn't say that statistical mechanics is nonclassical. I said statistical mechanics does not apply to the discussion of a single particle rolling up or down a slope. Tell me which of the states has more entropy the one with the particle at the top od the Norton dome or the one at the bottom?

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