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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is the Universe a Finite System?

In any finite system, you get something called a Poincareu occurrence. This is where everything comes back to where it began. And so if after universe is a finite system, which we believe it is, then that means that the universe will undergo a Poincreu occurrence. The time it would take for that PoincareU occurrence is not enough time for you to finish the game of trees. So the universe was reset itself. But do we really know what they are? Can't calculate them? What does it mean to know what a number is?

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