Why we cannot calculate the future, even when taking every single variable into account
In: Physics
Because *randomness* is a thing. The quantum world does not follow the mechanical mechanisms of the „big“ world. Even if the randomness of the quantum world smoothed out, it does not do so in a precise way. E.g. if you flip a coin 1.000 times you *expect* 500 times head and 500 times tails.
– macroscopic you get a probability curve with 500/500 as the most likely outcome and 0/1000 as a very, very unlikely outcome (roughly 1:2^1000)
– on a quantum („per coin toss level“) you have chaos: the 999 coin tosses before the last will not tell you a single bit about the result of the 1000th toss
So: we can predict macroscopic events to a certain degree. But each random micro event will make the predictions more and more foggy.
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