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Created: 07/14 01:43 am
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Universe Pondering
I was thinking about the scene from "Garden State" (very good movie by the way) where that girl talks about doing something completely original the other day and wondering if that was really possible. With 6.4 billion people alive today and billions and billions having been alive is there really anything anymore that hasnt been done? I guess if you take location into account such as "No one has ever whistled while laying down in this exact spot". Even that is implausible. So many people occupy the earth for an average of 60 years? Thats a lot of life. Is there a limit to originality? Is there an actual point where everything really has been done? Based on the assumption that time and space are infinite there would be an infinite number of individual events so there's always something new. But does infinite really exist? Or is it just a concept used to describe numbers, values and amounts too large for our comprehension.
Assuming time and space and thus possibilities are infinite, wouldnt that mean that there would HAVE to be other life SOMEWHERE? All the planet earth and all that lives on it is is a very specific set of circumstances and possibilities that make life possible. Hell with infinite possibilities that would mean that somewhere out there there is a planet identical to ours except there hitler was a woman.
With this stipulation of infinite possibilities the question of whether or not something happened would be eliminated and replaced by questions of when and where.
This would also mean that at some point somewhere at any given time the universe is being destroyed, is already destroyed and is in existence, hell somewhere, sometime the universe is made entirely of grape jello.
But it isnt because that contradicts itself... With infinite possibilities the universe would not exist because that is a possibility.
I've been thinking about this for a few years and the only solution I can come to while remaining that time and space are infinite is that they are also circular. Infinite in repeating a pattern. Thus infinite possibilities are not possible but infinite time and space are.
I think i'm in way over my head here with this stuff, I feel like an amoeba trying to build the hubble telescope.
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