30/04/2007
Infinite Probability
The universe is an amazingly huge place. Mind bendingly huge. Just the space between us and the nearest star is so massive our brains are not capable of imagining the sheer distance. We don’t know for sure exactly how big it is; we just know its big and getting bigger by the second. And within this impossibly huge megaverse there are billions of billions of stars to the power of twenty recurring or something like that. And many of these stars will have planets. So, with so many planets, probability alone means that there is some pretty weird stuff out there. With so many stars it is not beyond the boundaries of possibility that on one of these planets the exact right amount of elements have fallen completely by coincidence into the form of a beige Nissan Micra. The sheer volume of planets on which events may happen means that probability has some amazingly huge odds to play with. This has led me to the conclusion that every possible variation of every possible arrangement of atoms exists somewhere in the universe. So that includes wi-fi enabled computers with the capacity to communicate with other computers. There would be enough variations to ensure that there is a hefty number of them scattered across infinity, each one with a slight variation e.g. one label on the computer could say ‘Dell’ and another ‘Bell’. These computers could communicate and act together to make more fragments of computer until you have a large chunk of the universe littered with computers all interfacing with each other. This part of the universe, indeed the entire universe, will have evolved to have conscious thought, but it would be at constant war with the wi-fi enabled food blenders and radiators who would have their own ambitions. It happened here, why not elsewhere?
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