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Re:Time’s Almost Reversible Arrow by pdkl95 on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:47PM (#10868889)
As entropy is usually a probabilistic concept, a "more organized" future is very very unlikely, but not impossible. Numberphile has a video[1] that discusses the Poincaré recurrence[2] time for the universe. So while it may be possible, you probably have top wait about 10^10^10^10^2.8 "Plank times, millenia, or whatever"[3] for a state to occur.

[1] http://www.numberphile.com/videos/longest_time.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...

[3] The units used in the associated paper. With a number that large, it doesn't really matter what unit of time you use.

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