Predictability Problems in Physics

[dga471 (Daniel)]

@nwrickert

Newton’s mechanics is itself deterministic. But I don’t think there’s a required assumption of determinism.

I think we are saying the same thing. Newtonian mechanics is deterministic. We don’t know if nature is deterministic. Thus we are also saying that we don’t know if nature follows Newtonian mechanics exactly. (This is even without bringing QM into the picture.)

@nwrickert

I eventually came to a way of understanding Newton’s mechanics which did not imply determinism.

Can you explain that a little more?