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Laplacian Determinacy – A Certain Mistake

Laplacian Determinacy – A Certain Mistake. Pierre Simon Laplace - 1776: “An intelligence that knows all of the relations of the entities of the universe at one instant could state their positions, motions, and general effects any instant in the past of future. .

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Laplacian Determinacy – A Certain Mistake

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  1. Laplacian Determinacy – A Certain Mistake Pierre Simon Laplace - 1776: “An intelligence that knows all of the relations of the entities of the universe at one instant could state their positions, motions, and general effects any instant in the past of future. Henri Poincare – 1903: “Small differences in the initial conditions can produce very great ones in the final phenomena – prediction Then becomes impossible (1st recognition of chaos). Werner Heisenberg – 1924: There is a fundamental limit on the accuracy to which position and velocity can be determined. Stephen Hawking –1988: In the cosmology of the Big Bang and Black Holes, space and time themselves break down at short distances.

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