Isn’t the possibility of perfectly predicting the future pretty much the same as the possibility to transmit things back in time? Or maybe we’re not predicting the future at all, in which case… hmm.
No. The arbitrary ability to transmit things back in time can be used to set up paradoxes. Predictions, on the other hand, can be innacurate, describe counterfactual futures, or be poorly specified, but they do not result in paradoxes.
Isn’t the possibility of perfectly predicting the future pretty much the same as the possibility to transmit things back in time? Or maybe we’re not predicting the future at all, in which case… hmm.
No. The arbitrary ability to transmit things back in time can be used to set up paradoxes. Predictions, on the other hand, can be innacurate, describe counterfactual futures, or be poorly specified, but they do not result in paradoxes.