Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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