All of the switches are set before the train arrives, so that its path is completely determined.
Some switches we can see, others we cannot.
There is no doubt if we can see the setting of a switch:
we can say with confidence that some possible futures will not be realized and others will.
At the unseen switches, however, there is no such certainty about it.
We know the train will take one of the tracks leading out, but we have no idea which one.
The unseen switches are the true decision points in the future,
and what happens when we arrive at them determines the entire subsequent course of events.
When we think about the future of the universe, we can see our “track many billions of years into the future,
but after that there are decision points to be dealt with and possible fates to consider.
The goal of science is to reduce the vagueness at the decision points and find the true road that will be followed.
Now the passage will be read again.
All that we really need to plot out the future of our universe are a few good measurements.
This does not mean that we can sit down today and outline the future course of the universe with anything like certainty.
There are still too many things we do not know about the way the universe is put together.
But we do know exactly what information we need to fill in our knowledge,
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