AMA | October 2024

1770.939 - 1790.654 Sean Carroll

Laplace's demon, who knows everything about the microstate of the universe, doesn't know about entropy, doesn't know about the arrow of time. Laplace's demon just knows everything in the universe. The reason why we think there is an arrow of time, forgetting for the moment about quantum mechanics and the messiness there, but it doesn't really matter, so I'm happy to forget about it for right now.