Freitag, 27. Februar 2009
The Laplace Demon (LD)
The LD is an imaginary intelligence being able to calculate each condition of a system in both the past and the future by using all kinds of laws of nature and intial conditions and constraints to set up corresponding equations of motion. Objections:(1) LD is not able to calculate exact analytical solutions in complex physical systems because of mathem. reasons. He can only find particular solutions.(2) Since informations only extend with speed of light, LD cannot look across a certain "limit" in cosmos and is therefore not able to calculate and predict conditions in the whole universe.(3) LD's calculations would take as much time as the universe needs to reach these conditions because of exponentially rising amounts of data. An action could not be planned since several calculations would be necessary.(4) As is well known in quantum mechanics it is only possible to measure either position or momentum of an atomic particle. That's why LD cannot make deterministic predictions in these cases.
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