Some people believe their future is predetermined and nothing is left to chance. Math and physics could prove them right.

With our current knowledge in physics, we have the math that can figure out roughly how a leaf will move if a wind blows on it from a certain direction. Suppose we could calculate right down to the quark-particle locations, quantity, and temperature in both the leaf and the wind to infinity. In that case, it should be possible to determine exactly how the leaf would move. Using this same theory, it should be possible to determine where and when the wind will blow, the exact shape of a snowflake before it forms, or any other action in the entire Universe.

The human brain should be no exception. If we knew precisely how it was made up through genetics and the electrical paths created by all previous experiences and memories and could calculate them to infinity, it should be possible to figure out the exact reaction when a stimulus is applied.

Assuming all of the above to be true, and we had a spreadsheet containing every particle in the universe and their characteristics at any given exact time, it should be mathematically possible to predict the future, or by reversing the calculations we could know everything in the past. Of course, a fluid spreadsheet like this would be the size of the universe and impossible for us to construct, but it doesn’t change the concept that the future could be mathematically predetermined and predictable.

Dave Lister

listerlogic.com