Time?

[BAndrew]

As for your question, "Does time flow?" That can be answered with, "Do events occur?" Even though one could therefore say, "Then time does not exist," since it gives the impression that time's existence is dependent on events. But if that were true, then how could events happen in the first place?

Well no. Event A occured at a time t1 and an event B occured at a time t2. The events happened and time exists, but nothing tells you that time flows.

But the thing is. Nothing in the universe is "Random" there is no particle that floats around at random directions (whit the apparent exception of quantum physics but I am not in the mood to explain how they can also be predicted... maybe I'll explain later if i have to). There is the first initial interaction (the big bang) and than there is the consequence (the present and the future). Physical iterations can be 100% predicted. if what you say of the universe being chaotic were true. than the weather forecasters would never have a seemingly accurate prediction for the next day or even the next hour! they would simply trow at us some random results of an infinite list of possible scenarios! and that is not the case in our reality! they can very accurately predict whether it will rain tomorrow or not! the only reason for them not being able to predict 100% the earth's weather for the next 2000 years its due to the lack of data (every life form on earth. every pebble and rock. every atom and electron, etc) and computing power!

You could also say that even though the universe can be predicted, the result would never be the real one due to the fact we have "free will". The is no free will. only the Illusion of it. Its like a rock aware it is falling down a hill, but completely convinced that it is moving itself to the bottom, when in fact its just gravity.

I didn't say the universe is random. I said that the universe is unpredictable. It is described by mathematical rules with nothing random in them and can have outcomes that are unpredictable. Well you know what? The forecasters can't predict the weather. They only use probabilities to estimate how the weather might be in 2-3 days later from that time. How many times did the forecasters say "It will rain" and it doesn't? In my experience many. Their accuracy for 2-3 days is 80-90% so there is a great possibility of what they say will happen, but what about 1 month? They can't predict the weather at 1 month exactly from now. The "luck of data" you refer to means you simply can't predict the weather. It is unpredictable.