The article discusses the historical perspective of predictability in physics, tracing back to Pierre-Simon Laplace's ideas about a fully knowable universe. Key developments, such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory, revealed limitations to predictions, emphasizing that even with complete knowledge of a system's current state, future outcomes may remain unknowable. Recently, physicists are investigating undecidability in quantum particles and chaotic systems, demonstrating that even with theoretically perfect information, predicting certain systems' behavior is impossible, underscoring deeper limits to our understanding of nature.
"Whenever quantum particles are not being measured, they inhabit a fundamentally fuzzy realm of possibilities. They don't have a precise position for a demon to know."
"Even a demon with perfect knowledge of a system's state would be unable to fully grasp its future, revealing a radical limit to prediction that extends beyond chaos."
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