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A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future

• jleyank 5y ago
  Asimov was a chemist so he had an awareness, possibly expertise, in statistical mechanics and the kinetic theory of gases. Not hard for an sf writer to extrapolate psychohistory from that.
  • wikidani 5y ago
    >kinetic theory of gases I believe he mentions that specifically every time someone asks why can't psychohistory be used to predict the future of individuals.
    • davidkretch 5y ago
      Right, one of the explanations is in the Psychohistory essay in the Gold collection of essays, which you can read here: https://novel122.com/gold-the-final-science-fiction-collection-/part-two-on-science-fiction-psychohistory-993170.html https://novel122.com/gold-the-final-science-fiction-collecti....
• 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  Title seems to imply this mathematician actually knows what the future holds.