• Question: is the universe deterministic?

    Asked by Patrick Gaynor to Ashley, Bernard, Carsten, MariaMagdalena, Monique on 18 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Monique Henson

      Monique Henson answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      I talked about it a little bit here – essentially I’m not really sure. The laws of physics on large scales seem to be largely deterministic, but on small scales quantum mechanics comes into play, which adds an element of probability to everything. That means that it seems that it’s not entirely deterministic at least.

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