One of the biggest obstacles to building non-trivial applications today is state management. Even some of the best architects struggle to keep state consistent throughout an application. However, by taking cues from classical physics, we can build an app that has a consistent state and, as a result, is predictable. This allows us to not only predict what will happen in the future of our app state but also pull back the curtain and see what happened in the past of our app state.
8. In classical physics, if you know everything about a
system at some instant of time, and you also know the
equations that govern how the system changes then you
can predict the future. That's what we mean when we say
that the classical laws of physics are deterministic. If we
can say the same thing, but with the past and future
reversed, the same equations tell you everything about
the past. Such a system is called reversible.
The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
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10. In classical physics, if you know everything about a
system at some instant of time, and you also know the
equations that govern how the system changes then you
can predict the future. That's what we mean when we say
that the classical laws of physics are deterministic. If we
can say the same thing, but with the past and future
reversed, the same equations tell you everything about
the past. Such a system is called reversible.
The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
12. In classical physics, if you know everything about a
system at some instant of time, and you also know the
equations that govern how the system changes then you
can predict the future. That's what we mean when we say
that the classical laws of physics are deterministic. If we
can say the same thing, but with the past and future
reversed, the same equations tell you everything about
the past. Such a system is called reversible.
The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
14. In classical physics, if you know everything about a
system at some instant of time, and you also know the
equations that govern how the system changes then you
can predict the future. That's what we mean when we say
that the classical laws of physics are deterministic. If we
can say the same thing, but with the past and future
reversed, the same equations tell you everything about
the past. Such a system is called reversible.
The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
15. In classical physics, if you know everything about a
system at some instant of time, and you also know the
equations that govern how the system changes then you
can predict the future. That's what we mean when we say
that the classical laws of physics are deterministic. If we
can say the same thing, but with the past and future
reversed, the same equations tell you everything about
the past. Such a system is called reversible.
The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind