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In the Sense that, if One Fully Knows the Current State of Anything, One Can Predict its Next State? What does this Say About the "World Line"? About God?

2007-04-30 11:28:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

Michael A, doesn't the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Say a Particle's Momentum Cannot Be Measured, Not that it doesn't Have One.

2007-04-30 13:26:37 · update #1

Frank N, Where did I Make a Mistake In Capitalization? On to the Question At Hand, Let's Say, One Knows the Position and Momentum of Every Particle In the Universe (Let's Say you Are God), Then Having Knowledge of How they Behave, Will Tell you the Next State. World Line?

2007-04-30 19:33:02 · update #2

Thanks, goring, I Think I See What you Are Saying.

2007-05-01 07:23:55 · update #3

Excuse me for Being Simplistic, but I Think the Ultimate Question, WRT this, is Whether Something is Determinate (Which Suggests to me, No Free Will, No True Randomness) or Indeterminate (Free Will, True Randomness), Perhaps it is Both, Can it Be Both? Maybe I am Prejudiced, In this Matter.

2007-05-01 10:52:19 · update #4

Frank N, I'm Not Surprised you can't Find a Problem With my Capilization, There is None. BTW, When did I Say Heisenberg was Wrong?

2007-05-02 01:38:29 · update #5

Apparently, I don't Comply With Frank N's Concept of Reasonable Capitalization.

2007-05-02 16:54:29 · update #6

goring, doesn't True Randomness Fall Naturally From Quatum Theory? Doesn't this Strongly Suggest that it has to Be True?

2007-05-03 11:56:18 · update #7

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Principle of measurements says that in any observation of a process it is impossible to measure instantaneous value only averages. Im sure that is what Heisenberg actually meant.
Conservation law is really the law of equilibrium of a process..
All processes are forced functions which are dependentt on the system which forces it . It usually folows a probability distribution, All probability distributions are basically forced functions.
World line refers to minkowskys space time relation ship.Einstein used the concept in developing the General relativty Field equation.
Filed equation forces a solution of multidimensional diferential equation on the concept of a manifold which is a abstract mathemathical construct which may or may not relate to physical reality.

2007-05-01 06:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by goring 6 · 1 0

Please, learn capitalization! The answers posted to your question give examples of reasonable English capitalization.

It 'predicts the future' only by letting you calculate the future energy state of a system based on its current energy state. It reduces world line options by ruling out those which would imply a violation of conservation of energy.

All it says about God is that it's a characteristic of the physical universe God created. I can't tell what else you're thinking.

Einstein was extremely strong in his opinion that the universe was deterministic. He completely rejected the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics for most, if not all, of his life. This isn't related to conservation of energy.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says you can't know both position and momentum accurately for any particle. Einstein wasn't willing to accept this. But if it is true, predicting the future as you describe is impossible. If Heisenberg is wrong, however, predicting the future this way is not impossible, just monumentally difficult.

If you want to argue against either free will or randomness, you'll need a new approach. Quantum physics blocked this one.

2007-05-01 01:51:32 · answer #2 · answered by Frank N 7 · 1 1

The law of conservation of energy does not have much predictive power. In fact, it doesn't even hold strictly true in quantum mechanics. Also, quantum mechanics state that it is impossible to exactly know the current state of anything. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that the accuracy of measurement of a particle's position and the accuracy of measurement of a particle's momentum are inversely proportional.

2007-04-30 20:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by Michael A 2 · 0 0

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