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title: "Present 'selects' the past"
date: 2006-06-22T13:24:28Z
modified: 2006-06-22T13:24:28Z
permalink: "https://dogwonder.co.uk/2006/06/present-selects-the-past/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 292
categories:
  - General
tags:
  - History
---

> instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts ‘at the top’, with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In effect, says Hertog, the present ‘selects’ the past.