Prediction
Prediction of future events is an ancient human wish. An apocryphal saying states: "it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future".However, the desire to make predictions remains as strong as ever, and is an important part of almost every aspect of human life.
This is a stub for a planned article about prediction.
Topics:
- past approaches to prediction
- the mechanistic universe
- the omniscience of God
- chance and probability
- modern scientific ideas
- is it possible to predict the future, even in principle?
- quantum theory
- limits on computability, and the holographic principle
- chaos theory
- phase space evolution
- relativity theory and "block time"
- Prediction and forecasting in practice
- Statistics
- Simulation
- Weather forecasting
- Economic forecasting[?]
- Stock markets and Futures markets
- Think tanks and futurology
- Management of risk, for example, the Insurance industry
- Extreme-value theory
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