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Will it ever be possible to know all the variables involving a specific chaotic event, like the lottery numbers?

29th October 2013

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IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist) but my understanding of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is that it is impossible to know both the exact position and the exact momentum of a particle at the same time. So no.