Re:Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole ...
by Filligree on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:51PM
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It implies that the universe is deterministic, with the caveat that what’s deterministic is the universe as a whole, which includes umpteenillion extra “timelines” which we can’t see, in addition to our own.
There’s remains indexical uncertainty, as we can’t predict which timelines we’ll see. The answer is of course all of them.
Re:Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole ...
by komali2 on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:58PM
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Unknown: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63811/is-the-uni...
Also, has been argued philosophically for thousands of years https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
Re:Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole ...
by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:33AM
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It's known that the universe is deterministic, just not all people agree.
Re:Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole ...
by lalaithion on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:39PM
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The evolution of the wave function is deterministic. However, the observables of the wave function are not deterministic. So if I tell you the state of a photon moving toward your eye, you can determine the probability distribution of what color you will see, but not the actual color, because there's randomness during collapse.
Re:Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole ...
by FeepingCreature on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:48AM
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(Alternately, there's indexical uncertainty in timelines, which rouuuughly comes out to the same thing if you handwave about game theory a bit https://plus.maths.org/content/playing-games-part-i )
Basically, does this imply the universe is deterministic, or that we're living in a simulation?