But when British physicist James Clerk Maxwell came up with the whole thing way back in 1873 he started with a simple observation: "When an infinitely small variation in the present state brings about a finite difference in the state of a system, the condition of the system is said to be unstable and renders impossible the prediction of future events".
No one at the Israel Conference even blinked an eye when Moran made that ambitious, impossible-seeming prediction -- not the American software and gaming executives in the room, not the venture capitalists and investors mingling outside, eating Israeli food or listening to the music of Steve Katz.
His position here makes it logically impossible for explanations, predictions and postdictions to not have the same logical form.
"Ten years ago I would never have believed the situation we are now in, and it's impossible to make predictions.
We conclude that the dynamics and complexity of the wastewater system makes reliable predictions impossible, and therefore question the current design and upgrade approach.
According to (Guilford and Fruchter 1978), correlation coefficient is 'an index of the predictive value of a test' (p. 87) and that without knowing that number, 'it would be impossible to make predictions' (p. 77).
While the uniqueness results almost always come at the cost of stringent conditions, they are valuable, for without such uniqueness results it is impossible to make predictions about the behavior of physical systems.
Furthermore, error estimates of the network make verifiable predictions impossible.
Without sufficiently precise concepts, it is difficult if not impossible to derive predictions from statements containing them.
"Literally impossible," was the prediction of Ed Turanchik, a developer who organized the unsuccessful bid by Tampa, Fla., for the 2012 Games.
