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This is dwelling into philosophy, but some argue that the universe is deterministic. With absolute knowledge of every particle in the universe, you could predic
by Locke1689 15y ago
This is dwelling into philosophy, but some argue that the universe is deterministic. With absolute knowledge of every particle in the universe, you could predict the entire course of everything that would happen in the future.
Actually, this is impossible. There's an elegant proof of this statement based on Cantor's diagonalization argument which shows that the computational device required to perform such an analysis cannot exist in the universe, via contradiction.
- scott_s 15y agoCan you give me a google-able name (or description) for this proof?
- jacobandreas 15y agoBetter: http://www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/documents/Binder_nv-toae.pdf http://www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/documents/Binder_nv-toae.pdf