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Originally Posted by Face
Could you expand on this? By probabalistic do you mean that given all factors we could predict the future with 100% certainty? Because if that's the case I don't understand why that would mean any equilibriums would have to be reached.
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Think about it...you start a chemical reaction, it proceeds to equilibrium, using up catalysts and creating products until no more reaction occurs. There is still the potential for more reactions to occur, but without adding anymore elements, it will remain at equilibrium. This is the limited universe I was talking about. With a finite number of elements, any closed system will eventually reach equilibrium. Throw those same elements in again and again and what happens? The same thing...the environment recreates itself over and over. It's predictable.