Assessing the possibility of predicting the future
Predicting the future is something that has captured mans imagination for eons.
“What happens next?” has always been the stuff of mans hopes, fears, dreams and fantasies. From guessing games to elaborate rituals, everyone has at one time or another tried to make sense of the one thing that no one can know for sure: What happens next.
Sometimes we get it dead on. On any given weekday a person can predict where they will be and what they will be doing with a fairly certain degree of accuracy. It doesn’t take any metaphysical skill or second sight to know what you can expect to happen in the future.
Then there is “the future”, that indefinable murky place weeks, months or even years away, but in some ways even more important than today.
Tarot cards, rune casting, sheep’s entrails, trances and more make up the varied methods people have used to try and sort out events that have not happened yet. Over the course of human existence people have alternately embraced or abhorred the various means employed to try and decipher the future.
Many who practice various ways to read the future believe it’s a skill that we already have. To them tarot cards, runes or other methods merely allow people to tap into these skills more completely. For those practitioners it’s a sacred journey and privilege to be able to view what is to come.
For others, reading the future is dark magic indeed. Christians consider soothe-saying (reading the future) to be a very serious sin, one worthy of death. In spite of this, the bible has entire chapters dedicated to prophesies of the future, most notably the final chapter, Revelations.
If we could visit the past, what would the impact be of say, stepping on a bug? What happens in the future if I step on a bug now? Is there a way to measure that impact? Is that measurement a valid scientific tool to predict the future? It’s a bit of a mind bender to wonder what kind of impact one small action can have on the actions that come after. It’s those kinds of questions that are the stuff of some serious science – Quantum Physics.
Is there really a way to predict the future? Some say, yes, traditional means can be used as a guide and allow you to see the future. Some say it’s a scientific certainty that the future can be seen just as easily as the past, all we need is to find the right tools to allow us to look. Of course then the debate becomes Is it ethical to look forward into the future?
Either way, there are those who take it very seriously indeed and who knows, maybe one day we can look at the future as easily as we look at what’s on TV.
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