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Originally Posted by bluestarultor
Honestly, I see no reason why the entirety of time would be mapped out. History is defined in retrospect, but a look at quantum experiments shows that the presence of an observer changes the behavior of the universe, in some cases even retroactively. That indicates that time is a lot more fluid than we normally give it credit for, for one, and says outright that it can't possibly be fixed, or else there would have been no change.
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Okay, so I'm curious as to what you mean by this. Specifically, how you could possibly know whether observing something changes it retroactively, when obviously you weren't observing it at any point before that. Even if you could know, for any meaningful definition of "changing it retroactively" it would for all intents and purposes appear that it changes, and then the reason for the change occurs, which if anything SUPPORTS the idea of time being mapped out.
Or I'm misunderstanding and making an ass of myself. Feel free to point that out if I am.