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Carsten Milkau said:The basic model of randomness doesn't say anything about particular outcomes, only about "a tendency for many repetitions" and you cannot repeat the universe.
Oh yes it does - its called the Kolmogrov axioms and the strong law of large numbers that follows from those axioms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
You can't say anything about a single observation, other than the possible outcomes you can get - but in a large ensemble of systems prepared exactly the same way (technically the same state) the same observation performed on them all will yield results as per the strong law of large numbers.,
And yes that you cannot observe the universe is an issue with interpretations of QM.
Thanks
Bill