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Offline kevinkevin

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english class =P
« on: February 10, 2012, 01:15:52 AM »
  In my English class we were having a discussion about fate and free will.  The whole time we were discussing, all I was thinking about was this chapter I read in my quantum mechanics book about fate.  I want to make shore I have the right idea, and if I do, why don't more people know this? 
  Fate is a false concept. 
  We can model, and in principal predict exactly what will happen to a object that obeys Newtonian mechanics ( a macroscopic object ).  Even though chaos theory sais that we would need to know everything about this system to an infinite accuracy, but in PRINCIPAL it can still be done.  Even without measuring all aspects to an infinite accuracy we could still predict very accurately what something will do if we take everything we need to into acount.  But when we get down to the subatomic level the world works by the rules set out by quantum mechanics,  And in quantum mechanics we can not even in principal know everything about a quantum system.  We only have probabilities and what the wave function tells us ( I still don't know exactly what the wave function tells us yet ).  But in short, we can not know all there is to know in a quantum system, not even in principal.  So this tells us that fate and a Newtonian clock work universe is incorrect, right?  I just want to make shore the information I have is accurate.  Thanks! 

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Re: english class =P
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 02:49:36 AM »
So this tells us that fate and a Newtonian clock work universe is incorrect, right?

In a way - yes. But it depends on the time scale and accuracy. If you are falling from the 10 floors building your fate is clear (and lies directly below).
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