The Rules Can Be Applied Forward And Backward - Deepstash

The Rules Can Be Applied Forward And Backward

The only thing that the fundamental laws of nature do is that they rearrange the matter and radiation and everything that's in the Universe; they just give you the rules for how to put them in different places with different velocities. But you can apply those rules forward and backward. And this means if you had a really, really good computer, you can in principle always find out what happened earlier.

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