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Pierre-Simon Laplace
In Our Time: Science
The Stability of the Solar System
Le Plas was a determinist, and you might think that probability doesn't have much of a role to play in a deterministic universe. But it does because although determinism might be true in principle, according to Le Plas, we can't know all there is to know in order to work out what is going to happen. So instead of being able to say exactly what will happen, we have to make probabilistic assertions. And the other big question that I headlined at the top was about the stability of the solar system. Can you tell us why he arrived? Why he wanted to do something about that? What does the stability ofthe solar system mean? If we look
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