Monday, July 03, 2006

Science and Determinacy

After observing the gradual fading of indeterminacy of events through the advancement of science, it is hard to accept how the principle of uncertainty could hold such a firm place in modern science.
Science to my understanding is a system for knowing things with as much certainty as possible. And so far until this quantum mechanics, it is exactly what we have seen. The question now is, should we consider determinacy and causality as a more fundamental truth than science itself, given it was this very concept of knowing and predicting that gave birth to science in the first place.

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