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  • @PetteriPano
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    804 hours ago

    The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.

    That’s just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!

    • @Botzo
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      202 hours ago

      This just in: scientists disprove validity of thought experiment; philosophers remain concerned that they’ve missed the point.

    • Ogmios
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      214 hours ago

      It also makes a pretty bold claim about us actually knowing the lifespan of the universe.

      • @scarabic
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        53 hours ago

        How are they defining the end of the universe?

        • @HonoraryMancunian
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          42 hours ago

          Heat death would be my assumption, so between about 10^100 and 10^106 years

        • Ogmios
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          12 hours ago

          We know such an infinitesimally small amount about what is actually happening in the universe that any claims to be capable of predicting it’s end are patently absurd.

    • @scarabic
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      3 hours ago

      Infinite time is undefined though. We are not sure there was time before the Big Bang. Before anyone says “but there must have been,” consider that it’s just as paradoxical and mind blowing to imagine that time never had a beginning and just stretches infinitely into the past. How can that be so? It means it would have taken an infinite amount of time for us to reach this moment in time, and that means we never would have.

      • @[email protected]
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        259 minutes ago

        Why must the concept of time before the big bang (or after our heat death) exist in our physical reality for us to speculate about theoretical infinities past those? The thought experiment is about infinite time, not all the time in our limited universe. A lot of things happen at infinity that break down as soon as you add a limit, but we’re not talking limits when we’re talking infinity.