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Thanks for your reply! I think that sounds sensible. :smile: I think it is rather misleading that many "Newtonians" (in lack of a better word) are calling the macro world "deterministic" then. In my definition, "determinism" means that the future can only happen in one specific way, i.e. that...

Greetings! I have a question about the current interpretation of the laws of nature which, according to what I have understood, says that the laws of quantum world are pure probabilistic but the laws of the macro world are deterministic. Logically, I would think that probabilism at the...

My personal "theory" is that we like music because of human's fascination of order.

Just to make things clear, I'm no physicist either. :) My problem is that I cannot see how time can be objective (i.e. the past being fixed, the future being potential/open, and now being the point between) if the experience of it is subjective. If I experience a specific point of time as...

Einstein's "twin paradox" shows that time might be subjective (i.e. one of the twins experiences 100 years as 5 minutes, while the other one experiences 100 years as 100 years, or something like that), and not objective. If it is subjective, then there is no "global now", and the "4D block...

"Eternalism" or "B-theory of time" is often referred to as "4D block spacetime". In that view, all points in time exist simpliciter, i.e. there is no "global now". The reason why you experience 20th of October 2009 "now" and not e.g. 20th of October 2011, is because 20th of October 2009 is...

So, what you are saying is, if I have a "magic book", where each page has a number written on it, it could be no "correlation" between e.g. the number on page 55 and the number on page 56, but when reading the number on page 55, the number on page 56 are already determined (since it is already...

If random quantum fluctuations happened 13.7 billion years ago, then it could just as easily happen today, couldn't it? Or do you mean that our universe is deterministic, but one of many deterministic universes in a indeterministic multiverse, each and every having different "initial values"...

It depends on what kind of laws the universe is governed by, deterministic laws or probabilistic laws. If it is deterministic laws, then you are right, however if it is probabilistic laws, then it could have happened differently.

First of all, this is a really interesting question! The way I see it, both determinism and indeterminism lead to new questions that has to be answered, because if the universe is deterministic, then time has to be infinite in the past, and if it is indeterministic, then randomness has to...

If the future already exists, is that the same as saying the universe is deterministic?

I thought Inflation included a multiverse, i.e. that one of the strongest arguments for a multiverse actually was inflation? The way I see it, the biggest difference between Chaotic Inflation and the CNS hypothesis is that in Chaotic Inflation, the universes (or pocket universes) are created...

This is by far the most interesting question in the universe (at least that I know of), and in my opinion, the answer can be found in the question: "What makes me me, and you you?". If the sperm behind "me" 25 years ago had won the lottery and not my candidate, would I (as me or as anybody else)...

Well, I am no astronomer though, but I also had the impression that a peer reviewed paper contained at least some quality material, since it was actually peer reviewed.

SpaceTiger's Note: Taken from https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=130680" Sorry, this question is somewhat off-topic, but aren't the arxiv.org-papers peer-reviewed?