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WE have to postulate that every part of the universe interacts, directly or indirectly, with every other part. We are probably justified in assuming that all fundamental interactions are propagated with the speed of light. It follows that we see all other parts of the universe in the state in which they influence our own part of the universe now. Therefore we can in principle predict the immediate future behaviour of our own part of the universe
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Florides, P. S., and McCrea, W. H., Z. Astrophys., 48, 52 (1959).
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McCREA, W. The Interpretation of Cosmology. Nature 186, 1035 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1861035a0
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