Posted by Dr. Science on 02/10/2012 in
Question |
What is the probaility of assembling the universe from scratch assuming one by ten to the eightieth atoms scattered in random order?
———- from Mike Hoban of Bear DE
Imagine, if you will, a fly playing pinochole on the rump of a horse. The horse is frightened by the backfire from a truck and runs wildly through his pasture, eventually leaping the fence, running to the neighbors’ house, across their lawn, through the French doors and into the dining room of an elderly woman who is trying to remember the name of her first lover, a French truck driver with a horsey face who loved to play pinochole and had a problem keeping his fly zipped. If that can happen, then your little proposal is a shoe-in.
