A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

  • @jordanlundEnglish
    19•2 months ago

    The statement isn’t about “A” monkey. It’s about an infinite amount of monkeys.

      • @ozymandias117English
        6•2 months ago

        For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline

        The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality

        “We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”

        • @CryophiliaEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          Hypothesis: every science journalist should be placed in front of a bitch-slapping machine for the rest of their career. Every time they think about writing an article, they get bitch slapped. This will greatly improve the quality of science journalism.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 months ago

        The other part of it is there’s not only one monkey who does Hamlet correct on the first attempt, there’s two, three four, guess what - an infinite amount of them.

        And another infinity that get it right after 5 minutes

        Another infinity that take exactly 10 years 3 months 2 days 3 hours 4 minutes and 17 seconds

        And another infinity that takes one second less than the life of the universe

        And another infinity that takes a googleplex of the lifetime of the universe to complete

        that’s the point of the thought experiment

      • @KonstantEnglish
        1•2 months ago

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