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This makes very little sense to me. > I throw a rock in a parabolic curve in a plain field. Humans can predict exactly where it will fall No, we can predict t
by Voloskaya 6y ago
This makes very little sense to me.
> I throw a rock in a parabolic curve in a plain field. Humans can predict exactly where it will fall
No, we can predict this within a margin of error. That margin of error might be small for simple cases but if you add some gusty wind, some rain etc. it can increase quite rapidly.
> However, we cannot predict when and where exactly will a random meteor fall
We can also predict it within a margin of error just like with the rock in the plain field. But you are comparing an event that last a few seconds (from the throw to the landing) to an event that may last years or more depending on what kind of meteor you are talking about. So of course over the span of years, even a very small imprecision turns out to have very big consequences.
If you could throw the rock hard enough so that it orbits earth for some years before coming back, it would be as hard to predict where it would land.
> Knowing everything about the universe
How could you possibly know everything about the universe when some events are purely random?
> In other words, there would be less loss of information/knowledge which would be just enough to fill the critical gaps to know everything about the universe.
So you are saying we happen to live at the exact time, where, had we not this knowledge transfer issue, we would know everything? This is quite self-centered.
Which also simply mean that in a relative close we will now everything, which seems quite ludicrous.
- galaxyLogic 6y agoAlso take into account quantum theory. There IS no precise location and velocity at the same time. There are only probabilities. At least according to the Copenhagen interpretation