Comment by niels_olson
15 years ago
This whole theory vs observation argument exists at the very pinnacle of human thought, expressed in the Copenhagen interpretation. If you want to contribute to the human understanding of this, you'll have to beat Bohr and the uncertainty principle.
Fourier was there first.
My claim wasn't first, it was top. You up-end the Copenhagen interpretation, show the universe really is deterministic, and every other argument on this subject, in every discipline, collapses. As it is, the arguments are almost certainly failed, but it's not quite a cinch. Because probability admits determinism as a special case. One of the deep points of Norvig's essay.