> Not at all! If you could realy have all of that information for every 
> atoms in the univers, you could conceivably be able to predict when a star 
> will apears, how long it will live, how it will finish, if it will have 
> planets and how many, the exact description of every single one, if it 
> will host any life, and if inteligent life will apears. All that for a 
> future star for whitch most of it's constituant matter is still contained 
> in several other stars. Star that will only start to form in a billion 
> years.

Could the machine also tell you exactly what happened in the past?

The key question is if it is possible to predict the exact behaviour of 
every particle based on its current state.  Are there not some things that 
exhibit truly random behaviour?

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