Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle imply that we can't predict the future?

While it's not really the explanation most people use for why we can't predict the future, I suppose it works. However, due to basic uncertainties in quantum mechanics (states of particles have probabilities associated with them) we can't predict with 100% certainty what will happen on the particle level, much less on a larger scale where so much of it is due to basic human whim.

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