A really interesting video article about patterns.

If the universe that we live in consists out of particles and forces that can not be destroyed but only changed. And if they work according to fixed laws of nature which are consistent throughout the universe. Then if we had the knowledge of all the particles and all the forces and all the laws of nature. Would you not say that we should be able to predict every interaction between them?

My question is : where does “chance” enter in a universe that works according to a fixed set of rules and a fixed set of particles and energies. I know that these three things are basically one and the same. Or they were one and the same for a split second during the big bang. So if we know the how and what about the big bang, then we should be able to simulate everything else in existence that followed.

At least, that is my current understanding on the matter. And I’m missing the coincidence factor in the equation.