303 | AMA | February 2025

3159.668 - 3182.524 Sean Carroll

This is to say, for those of you who have not read that wonderful book that I can absolutely recommend to you, you can formulate the laws of physics either in sort of the good old-fashioned Laplace's demon way, which is to say, give me the complete state of the system now, give me the equations of motion, I will tell you what happens next. The Laplacian paradigm, we called it in the book.