We Aren’t As Insignificant As We May Think

Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s say, for the purpose of this experiment, that we can observe the development of the universe as a third party: someone who can just sit back and watch the whole thing happen without ourselves being influenced by it. Let’s also imagine that we have the ability to calculate everything. In other words, as the Big Bang starts to “bang” we have the understanding and capacity to be able to calculate the exact position of every particle, every chunk of rock and bit of energy for any given point in time. After all, with physics you should be able to calculate everything. So if we are able to calculate exactly where every particle is moments after the Big Bang, then we can also take into account how they are going to interact moments later and calculate their new position as more time passes.

Now, naturally there is this little thing called Chaos Theory...