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AxialGem t1_jacxd29 wrote

This touches on something called the Poincaré recurrence theorem but afaik there is no requirement for the universe to be infinitely large. If you randomly shuffle a deck of cards long enough you can expect it to return to a previous state. But there are only 52 cards in a deck, not infinitely many.

Also afaik it is not known if the universe is infinite or not of course

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dahbrezel t1_jadv60g wrote

52! combinations is a hell of a lot of combinations though ^^.

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AxialGem t1_jadzq1x wrote

Oh yea absolutely nobody is doing that lol And considering 52! Is already an unimaginably vast number, think about all the particles in the universe... it's gotta be like almost over a thousand combinations all in all :p

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