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Originally posted by quicksink:
if the laws of physics were created at the moment of the big bang, wouldn't that mean that all time was decided from that point forward? if you think about it, the laws of physics have total control over every inanimate object- they move it- they make it- they destroy it.
You have unfortunately failed to take into account this wee little thing called Heisenburgs uncertainty principle....
Your view is one commonly put forwad by the empiricists of the 19th century who believed that witha proper derivation of all the laws and proper observations of the matter they acted on the future states of the system could be calculated.....
It was all looking rosy until quantum mechanics came along and put an inherant limit on our knowledge.....