52: consider a process

CONSIDER A PROCESS THAT SEQUENTIALLY LAUNCHES PING-PONG BALLS, ONE-BY-ONE AT A CONSTANT TIME INTERVAL, EACH HORIZONTALLY AND WITH THE SAME INITIAL VELOCITY, INTO A TIME-VARYING HORIZONTAL WIND. ACCORDING TO CLASSICAL PHYSICS, EACH BALL SHOULD LAND IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION, BECAUSE SUBSEQUENT PING-PONG BALLS EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT DRAG FORCES THAT AFFECT THE DISTANCE THEY COVER BEFORE LANDING. BUT CLASSICALLY, THE TIME OF FLIGHT DEPENDS ONLY ON THE OFFICIAL HEIGHT ABOUT THE FLOOR, AND WILL BE THE SAME FOR EVERY PING-PONG BALL ~ SINCE THE BALLS ARE LAUNCHED AT A CONSTANT TIME INTERVAL. BY TALLYING THE NUMBER OF PING-PONG BALLS THAT LAND AT EACH LOCATION, A DISTRIBUTION OF LANDING PLACES CAN BE FOUND. IF THE WIND CAN BE MEASURED ACCURATELY, THIS DISTRIBUTION CAN BE PREDICTED DETERMINISTICALLY BY NEWTONIAN THEORY. IN THE TWO-TIME RELATIVISTIC PICTURE, PING-PONG BALLS LAUNCHED AT A CONSTANT INTERVAL OF HISTORICAL TIME WILL LAND AT THE SAME CONSTANT INTERVAL OF HISTORICAL TIME, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPACE-TIME LANDING PLACES CAN BE TALLIED. IN SOME CASES, BALLS LANDING AT DIFFERENT HISTORICAL TIMES WILL ARRIVE AT THE SAME SPATIAL LOCATION AT THE SAME COORDINATE TIME. AT ANY GIVEN HISTORICAL TIME, THE MODEL WILL PROVIDE A PARTIAL TALLY OF PING-PONG BALLS LANDING AT A GIVEN TIME COORDINATE. IN EVERYDAY LANGUAGE, THIS MEANS THAT A PHYSICALLY REASONABLE THEORY, CAPABLE IN PRINCIPLE OF PREDICTING WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN AN HOUR, MAY PROVIDE EXPLICIT FORECASTS OF NO PRACTICLE VALUE, BECAUSE THE FINAL RESULT IS EXCESSIVELY SENSITIVE TO EVENTS THAT WILL NOT HAVE BEGUN FOT ANOTHER 59 MINUTES. IN SUCH A THEORY, CAUSALITY REMAINS DETERMINISTIC, BUT THERE IS ROOM FOR SUFFICIENT DYNAMIC VARIATION TO MAKE ANY ADVANCE PREDICTION OF OUTCOMES IMPRACTICAL. IN ORDER TO MAKE RELIABLE PREDICTIONS FROM A PHYSICAL MODEL IN THE TWO-TIME FORMALISM, IT IS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH THE SYSTEM EVOLVES FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT IN CHRONOLOGICAL TIME, AND HAVE SUFFICIENTLY DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEPENDENCE OF THE UNDERLYING INTERACTION ON CHRONOLOGICALNTIME AND ON THE SPACE-TIME LOCATIONS OF THE INTERACTING ELEMENTS. BRINGING THESE REQUIREMENTS INTO EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, ANY ATTEMPT AT AN EXPLANATION OF OBSERVED PHENOMENA REQUIRES THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE PARTICIPANTS INDUCE MICROSCOPIC EVOLUTION OVER VERY SHORT HISTORICAL TIMES, HOW THOSE RELATIONSHIPS DEPEND ON THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SEPARATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS, AND HOW THE RELATIONSHIPS THEMSELVES MAY CHANGE AS CHRONOLOGICAL TIME ADVANCES. SINCE MOST OF THIS INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILIABLE FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, THIS DISCUSSION PRIMARELY INDICATES A POSSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR SPECULATION REPRESENTING A LEVEL OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT SIMILAR TO WHAT "HARD SCIENCE" PERMITS TO ITSELF. {We seem to be on the brink of talking about human language!}~~~~~~~~