> that they can in a medium. The quantum many worlds theory arises from hypothesizing that Fermat's principle may not always be true?
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Apparently there's some evidence that light particles travel alternate,slower paths too, but the laws of probability make that imperceptible
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So if I'm understanding Fermat's thing right, we almost certainly live in a deterministic universe because we've never observed >
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> light traveling in a medium in any way other than the fastest route that it can take. Am I correct about that?
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Also, this doesn't come up in the film, but isn't this why the universe as far as we are concerned is only what exists in our light cone?
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As in: the aliens in the movie DEFINITELY do not have FTL travel, because if they did, they'd inevitably break Fermat's theorem
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They would not be able to see the future if they could truly time travel (break a light cone) because their apparent "rememberingthe future"
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> depends upon their experience being the same as a particle traveling at the fastest speed possible through its medium, no >
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You're on track. It's grappling with the painful philosophical implications of hard physics stuff that makes me love Ted Chiang's writing
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A lot of stuff, he's on Wikipedia. One of his most famous stories is Hell is the Absence of God
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