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AxialGem t1_j6k4ytc wrote

That doesn't necessarily follow, right? It's not enough to know the size and age of the universe, you also have to know the chance of atoms moving that way. Of course, we live in a universe where that did happen, because, uh, that film exists. But that doesn't mean it's likely to happen ofc. It's like saying: given how many grains of sand there are on this beach, one of them must be an exact replica of the Taj Mahal down to the atom. When in fact, the number of possible arrangements of atoms in a grain of sand is vastly more than the number of grains of sand on the beach

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hoteffentuna t1_j6kvwh1 wrote

But we know the number of grains of sand is finite. We don't know if the universe is finite.

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AxialGem t1_j6me2gw wrote

True. All I was saying is we don't have enough information to know this

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