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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by soperj on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:00PM (#35202084)
There can't be an infinite number of marbles in a finite amount of space.
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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by a257 on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:10PM (#35202253)
The number of possible states asymptotically approaches infinity, so we can model it as such. You can get a more "accurate" model using more math (with measure theory), but the terms will coalesce such that they are negligible.
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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by soperj on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:34PM (#35202555)
negligible isn't zero, and time at a universe scale may be longer.
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