Inferring attempts to explain what has already happened. Predicting involves a forecast about what will happen in the future. What is the difference between inferring and predicting?

The correct term for what you’ve described is a prediction.

Scientific inquiry refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence derived from their work.

An inference is a logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.

Science is a way of learning about the natural world that depends on evidence, reasoning, and repeated testing. Scientists explain the world based on their observations. If they develop new ideas about the way the world works, they set up ways to test these new ideas.

Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions. Predeterminism is closely related to determinism.

It does not travel forward through an environment of time, moving from a real point in the past and toward a real point in the future. Instead, the present simply changes. The past and future do not exist and are only concepts used to describe the real, isolated, and changing present.

According to Quantum Mechanics, and due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we cannot predict the future state (position and momentum) of any system. Given the state of a system in classical phase space (r(t0),p(t0)), we cannot determine the state at some later time t.

One obvious question that arises, then, is exactly how many of these parallel universes might there be. In a new study, Stanford physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have calculated the number of all possible universes, coming up with an answer of

In other words, LQG black holes are less like holes and more like tunnels, or passageways. But if time is rewound according to LQG instead, the universe does not begin with a singularity. Rather, it collapses into a sort of tunnel, which leads into another, older universe.

13.8 billion years

I’d even say there was no God before the end of the Neolithic age, and that means God is roughly 7,000 years old.

13.51 billion years

This 13-Billion-Year-Old Supermassive Black Hole Is the Oldest Ever Found.

Pistol Star

about 4.5 billion years