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Multiverse Warfare & Quantum Mania (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Evolution of Quantum Mechanics

In an every long lasting static universe, which is what they thought our universe was at the end of the 19th century, even though entry would run everything down to a universe of random particle fluctuations in a distant future. This is called Poincare recurrence for Henry Poincare who suggested it back in 1890 for closed systems like cards. If we increase that to just 20 dice, the number of possible combinations would be 3 quadrillion, 656 trillion, 158 billion, 440 million, 62,976. Do not try this at home, it would take you and many multivores copies of you several lifetimes of all day shuffling for that to become a probable outcome

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