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?

  • @ozymandias117English
    6•3 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•3 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.