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To: Greg or e who wrote (50803)	3/25/2014 11:50:03 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The nature of information is that it is very specific. Even though the past could have happened many many ways, only one set of circumstances actually happened. That makes it seem very specific and goal oriented. Nothing seems harder to determine than what the weather will be next year. We could expect it to have some seasonal consistency, but there is no way to know if it's going to rain here in a year. That data is in no way specific. However, look back a year and you can find out exactly what the weather was and not only if it rained, but how much rain if it did. That weather actually happened and nothing we do in the present is going to change the fact that the weather a year ago was what it was. That data is very specific only because it is not in the future. There was a time, say two years ago when that weather was just as unpredictable as is the weather of a year in the future. That is why I wrote that the most fundamental property of our universe is that the past has already happened and the future has not happened yet. One of the implications is that information that is very specific and determined now, was speculative in the past. There's a lot more to time than just clocks and calendars.