Laplace's demon

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A creature in a thought experiment that knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, and therefore (according to determinism) can compute their past and future values using the laws of classical mechanics.

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First described in 1814 by Pierre-Simon Laplace.
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