• Question: is the univerise deterministic?

    Asked by samiscool to Indi, Jarv, John, Ken, Vicky on 12 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: John Prytherch

      John Prytherch answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      No, I don’t think it is. At very small scales (at teh size of atoms and smaller), quantum mechanics means that we can’t predict exactly what will happen in a given situation, even if we knew all the information it was possible to know about that situation. And so, the universe is not deterministic.

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      Vicky Young answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      It depends on how you determine the universe but I would say it is indifferent.

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