Baron Pepperpot
Active member
How long did I not exist for before I was born? Since time began with the creation of this universe then the answer must be 13 billion years. How long will I not exist for after I am gone? Perhaps forever but perhaps not. Maybe it's a question of chance. Let's pretend I have just dealt one playing cards at random. We could record the result, gather up the cards and try, through chance alone, to replicate the exact order of the cards. The odds against this are 52 x 52 x 52...2 times to 1 against. That's a bewildering number...many, many, many times the number of atoms in the universe. But suppose I never stopped trying to get the cards to fall in this order again. Not only will I make the unlikely inevitable, but I will make all other possibilities certain too. I will, at some point and through chance alone, ensure that our hand will be dealt a trillion, trillion, trillion times in a row.
Is that a yes or a no ?