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Old 12-04-2012, 01:49 AM   #6 (permalink)
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No, Mr. Existence is wondering if something can happen only once in an infinite space/time universe. The question bases itself on the idea that given enough time, anything will happen. And therefore, with infinite time, anything should eventually happen an infinite amount of times, not just once. It's pretty much there in the first post.

I'm not giving my opinion on this by the way, just trying to clarify the conundrum.
No. You'd have to base that expectancy solely on the human race. In an infinite universe, again, there are infinite possibilities. Tic tac toe has a finite amount of possibilities, but it's already been played. Something has changed.

That's the universe; try to find a way to explain yourself out of it, and there's something statistical to change it.
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