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If many different initial conditions can evolve to almost the same state, then reversing time must necessarily blow up small errors/perturbations. It's the same
by wcoenen 5y ago
If many different initial conditions can evolve to almost the same state, then reversing time must necessarily blow up small errors/perturbations. It's the same reason why driving with a trailer backwards is more difficult than forward, even though Newtonian mechanics are time reversible.
- pfdietz 5y agoI understand they original researchers didn't even validate their models by running them forward from, say, 1600 or 1800. They didn't even try it.