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Old 05-July-2005, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Fram
But that makes it an everlasting cycle which will take forever (pun intended) to repeat itself, as there are (almost literally) countless possibilities. The chance of the same Universe happeng again is close enough to zero to be considered zero in my view.
But it is not.
There is always enough "time" for repetitions.

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Also: time is embedded in the universe. It is illogical to say that one universe comes earlier or later than another.
As a matter of fact, I do not think we have physically meanigful way to formulate the question "What was before the Universe?", at least not yet.
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