• Neato@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    Infinite, sure. But the universe doesn’t have infinite. There are SO many english words that just putting them together randomly it’s still effectively impossible to generate a work of Shakespear.

    And even with as much tech as we can imagine, the universe is finite to our reach and especially to our time. The odds of randomly generating Shakespear is so low even using a processor the size of the sun, the heat death of the universe might happen first. It’s theoretically possible, but so is a planet that spontaneously generates made of nothing but cheddar cheese.

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        10 months ago

        That’s incorrect. The universe is infinite. But without FTL travel we can’t access anything but the observable which is finite.

        In heat death even black holes will evaporate. There is no anything ultimately in heat death. Just particles flying every way getting farther apart.

        Also there’s not even a theoretical way to survive a big crunch, big bang cycle.