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> Putting this all in perspective, if physicists ever uncover a Theory of Everything for our universe, and even if we deduce the initial state of the universe, we may still be helpless to deduce the long-term behavior of our own universe. Thus, as Stewart has said, the Theory of Everything in this case predicts everything but explains nothing.

Isn't it the other way around with these cell automatons? We have explanation (cause we know all the rules and the initial configuration) but we don't have enough computational power to predict anything meaningfull long term.




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