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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
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Subject: Re: Re: why FTL is illegal (wrt: free will).
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 17:32:38 EST
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> But that just says that the universe just appears random because we haven't
> looked in great enough detail.  If you assume ...
> 2) 100% no exclusions complete
> knowledge of the initial state of the universe...
> you can predict
> all future states of the universe.
But QM says explicitly that IN PRINCIPLE you cannot have 100% knowledge of the
state of any system.  One might hope that this will be disproved someday, but
there is currently no evidence (that I know of) pointing in that direction.
-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)
Mr Humility