A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past

Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by PartiallyTyped on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:31PM (#35202511)

I think I was misunderstood. My comment regarding infinite precision was mostly aiming to argue that any single point has probability zero but an event still occurs.

This was then used again when mentioning earth to argue that depending on the definition of "order" here:

> And no practical amount of shaking the jar will ever return the marbles to a high order state again.

It is entirely possible to reach a state of higher order if you don't require that individual marbles don't hold the same arrangement relative to adjacent marbles, meaning that any permutation of marbles with identical color is acceptable.

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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by lupire on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:48AM (#35208659)

Define "large", at least in an estimate. Dividing two astronomically large numbers is not easily estimated. And define "entirely possible". Yes, could happen once, maybe, in the entire Universe is entirely possible. Anything is "entirely possible" because humans are not omniscient, so we have to start from Bayesian priors.

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