• egrets@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Even for a single instant, that would need more memory capacity than is available to all data centers combined

    Sure, but we only need to know the exact state of all of the mass and energy in the universe at that one point in time and we can extrapolate from there in both directions.

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      23 days ago

      I know this is a joke, but: no you can’t. Chaotic dynamics become unpredictable very quickly with minor noise/errors, and quantum effects like e.g. hawking radiation are plenty enough noise to screw up your projections.