remilia scarlet, okazaki yumemi, and kitashirakawa chiyuri (touhou) drawn by rappa_(rappaya)

Well, like the Professor explained, Laplace Demon, is an abstraction of a power "daemon" (greek) that would be the embodiment of his theory. His theory was of a deterministic Universe, that if we could, at any given point in time, know the position and energy/state of all particles in the known universe we would be able to predict the future. So free will would be false, since even the reactions in a human brain would be able to be determined.
Remilia is the Scarlet "Demon", and she controls Fate (events that can lead to a particular future). It stands to reason that for doing that, in a deterministic universe, where free will does not exist, what she does is actually see into the future. So she should be able to dodge that.

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Remilia to control fate works like Laplace Demon, she has to be able to see the future in some degree. Laplace demon does. And since the fate of taking a plate of ramen in the head is not a good one, she should have been able to dodge/avoid that.

The Shadow

almost 12 years ago

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pt_kamen said:
Well, like the Professor explained, Laplace Demon, is an abstraction of a power "daemon" (greek) that would be the embodiment of his theory. His theory was of a deterministic Universe, that if we could, at any given point in time, know the position and energy/state of all particles in the known universe we would be able to predict the future. So free will would be false, since even the reactions in a human brain would be able to be determined.
Remilia is the Scarlet "Demon", and she controls Fate (events that can lead to a particular future). It stands to reason that for doing that, in a deterministic universe, where free will does not exist, what she does is actually see into the future. So she should be able to dodge that.
TL;DR
Remilia to control fate works like Laplace Demon, she has to be able to see the future in some degree. Laplace demon does. And since the fate of taking a plate of ramen in the head is not a good one, she should have been able to dodge/avoid that.

Ah, but your theory overlooks one key fact my good sir... that the demon might WANT to have ramen on her head!

Ryvian

almost 12 years ago

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Which would be impossible due to the uncertainty principle no? Because if you knew the exact position of a particle at a given time, then you cannot know the momentum of a particle at that position at that time, therefore you cannot know the where the particle will be next?