Clockwork universe
![Tim Wetherell's Clockwork Universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (2009)](/Images/godic/202501/05/Clockwork_universe_by_Tim_Wetherell3617.jpg")
In the history of science, the clockwork universe compares the universe to a mechanical clock. It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every aspect of the machine predictable.