QUOTE (Fsgdjv @ Jan 19 2008, 02:26 AM)
Actually, there is a really low chance that that can happen, and if the universe is infinite, that means that there are infinetly planets with aliens flying on saucers and experimenting with humans (just maybe not from our planet). There is also a really low chance that there is somebody doing exactly the same as you are now, and once again, if the universe is infinite, that means that there are infinetly many aliens looking like you and doing the same thing as you right now.
This of course requires the universe to be endless, and since that is one of the common views, it's interesting to play with that thought.
Its a fun thought but all evidence says the universe is not infinite. There is a very big distinction between infinity and even a really huge number, even something like a googol raised to a googol.
I do believe in extra terrestrial life, the chances that were the only things here are just incredibly small O_o
By the way, I was reading a bunch of physics related stuff earlier this week on the limits of computers. It said something like to calculate and
store (thats a big point) all the different possible combinations of a 40 character password (I forget if it was just using numbers, or just letters or a combination), even if every PARTICLE in our entire universe was to be used as a bit of storage (generally the smallest computer storage measurement) in a kind of universe-hard drive, the "hard drive" would only barely be large enough to house all the information. Were it a 50 character password, it wouldn't be big enough. I find that pretty interesting. It was explaining that there are certain problems which are simply unsolvable by conventional methods.
That said, a computer can easily be made to individually calculate each of the possible password combinations and show them one or a few at a time (though it would take many years to read them all).
Also, I read that a DNA based computer has actually been made which processes something like 100,000 times faster than a normal computer, but since the above problem is still present there isn't much interest in them because Quantum based computers offers a new kind of approach to these problems rather than just faster processing.
I may have gotten one or two small details wrong, as a lot of it was over my head, but I found it quite interesting
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