• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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    6 days ago

    Or… maybe predestination is true in the sense that the universe is just physics and therefore theoretically calculable. I suppose that’s less romantic though.

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      6 days ago

      Quantum physics says that it is entirely calculable, in that every option is happening simultaneously at every instant. It would just take a billion years to calculate a standing glass of water, at our current level of development.

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        Quantum physics also agrees with chaos theory, to a degree, though, in that matter behaves in very strange ways, and at atomic and sub atomic levels behave in potentially completely random ways. So, fuck it all, love the one you’re with.

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          The “spooky action from a distance” of quantum phenomena like entanglement fully supports this attitude as the default. Every realized/observed/actual reality necessarily coalesces/collapses every superposition into congruency.

          In short, retcon: the universe is retroactively continuitous. So the one you’re with is always who you were “predestined” to be with.