Jacob,
Just for the fun, and for historical exactness...
I would rather invoke Laplace for such an argumentation, whereas
Poincaré should better be invoked for a very strong warning against it.
Therefore, ignoring the warning and following Laplace, we could even
readily extend your suggestion from back-calculating the images to
solving the corresponding structures (and thus also writing the
corresponding papers). And write "The End" (as nauseam, of course ::))
Philippe Dumas
Jacob Keller a écrit :
Perhaps we could use Poincare's argument(?), that knowing one cross
section of the universe in all of its detail would allow forward and
back-calculation of all previous states. Then the universe would be
its own lab notebook/ archive, and we would not need to bother with
all of these technicalities in the first place. The images, then,
could be back-calculated from the current (or any) configuration of
all the universe's atoms, and then we could work better on improving
our crystallography software (and ferreting out fraud) from those...
JPK
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