Predicting the Future…
No there is no hocus pocus involved in what I’m writing here. No ancient myths, no crystal balls, no magic at all.
Just an idea for a machine that can predict the future. Imagine a small empty room with no doors, no windows, and all the walls and the roof and the ceilng are exactly the same. The normal laws of gravity apply and the only thing in that room is a ball.
Let us assume that this ball starts bouncing. Given the exact velocity and weight of the ball one will be able to predict the exact path of the ball and it’s final resting place. Behold I give you a basic crystal ball which let’s you preside the future. Keep adding more balls and complicate the room by adding windows, furniture, doors etc and you’ll probably need a computer crystal ball now.
Now imagine if the room was the earth, and there was a ball representing everyone and everything. If we had a computer capable of tracking everything I’m sure it would be able to predict the future with great accuracy!!
What if the balls had minds of their own and could change their paths whenever they wanted to? What if not all balls had equal minds? Can the computer come up with an estimate based on how the ball originated?
@Vishal Srivastava This is a big ass computer we’re talking about! And it is based on the fact that there is no “true randomness”. When you know everything about everything, then there is nothing that you cannot predict (Does that make sense? )
@namitkarlekar Interesting. So the main objective would not to predict the future but to develop the big ass computer. When we have such a computer we should be also able to dig out the past. Right?
@Vishal Srivastava Only if the big-ass computer comes with a big-ass hard-disk…. and a lotta processing power to interpolate the past… essentially, do a trend-analysis, but in the opposite direction…. I have a head ache now !
Thank you