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baywax
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ZapperZ said:The problem here, as is the common case here in this sub-forum, is that the question itself is undefined, at least to me when I compare it to the questions I ask in physics. What does it mean to have "proof of the future"? What is meant as a "future" and in what form is there such a proof?
Note that something that is more well-defined, such as F=ma, has no "proof". One can say that there's and overwhelming and compelling evidence that it is valid (such as your house) when used within the region of its validity, but in the strictest sense, there is no "proof" for it the way you can come up with proofs in mathematics.
So think about it. If something that is so well-defined and so well-verified in physics does not actually have a "proof", what does that leave you with something less well-defined as "the future"? Does the fact that I can often predict, with uncanny accuracy, of what's going to occur in the future somehow is a "proof" that the future exist? I dunno. I have no idea what the criteria is to prove something like this. It isn't science.
Zz.
Agh... thanks Zapper Z... sorry to hear its not science.
How to more definitively ask the question... hmmmm
It should be as easy as proving 1+1 = 2. But I can only do that if the person I'm proving it to uses the same numerical value system.
As this thread progressed, from the initial idea, I realized that the question might be of some interest to the scientific community because so much of that work is based on the potential of a "future".
I wondered if the idea of "the future is now" might speed things up.