Can anyone explain this What the ____ fun fact #1019?

[disappoint]

Aside from the likelihood that tumbler wtf-fun-facts should probably be named wtf-fun-BS-posing-as-facts or these-are-not-the-factoids-you're-looking-for *waves hand in front of your face*, and the fact that it says "some scientists", implying that some disagree with that "little factoid"...

Why in science's name should there be an exact copy of you somewhere in the universe if it is infinite? I don't see how just because the universe is infinite that means you can't have something in it that is unique.

 

[shortylickens]

No, no SCIENTIST says that.
Scientists dont work with baseless hypotheses. They work with models.

There is absolutely no way to model, test, and eventually prove the notion of alternate or parallel existences.

Some kid in his first year of science probably said that, and obviously had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

 

[lxskllr]

In infinite space, every possibility that can happen, probably will happen, and if it can happen once, it can happen twice, hence two of you.

Of course the pedants will have a problem with the statement, but it's pretty good for a single simple sentence, and exceptionally accurate for yahoo in general :^D

 

[Jeff7]

If space is infinite, who's to say that all of it contains matter?
Or is this statement considering "space" to be a "foamy mixture of matter, energy, and space" like what we live in?

 

[MongGrel]

Is a quantum theory thing, but dark matter and many others things have never been worked out yet, so I doubt you'll have to worry about it much in you're lifetime OP.

But you always meander on the edges of mediocrity, I suppose.

 

[John Connor]

Space is a big damn ball.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

If space-time is a continuum then it *is* infinite.

 

[PowerEngineer]

As suggested, the gist of the argument is that there are only so many ways that atoms can be arranged into structures and if space is infinite (and homogeneous and isotropic), then all the arrangements - no matter how complicated and unlikely - will eventually be repeated (an infinite number of times) if you go far enough. You. The Earth. The solar system. The Milky Way galaxy...

The usual analogy is to the arrangement of a deck of cards. There are a large but finite number of ways the cards can be arranged in the deck. If you shuffle the deck enough times, you'll start to get recurrences of arrangements you've already had. If you shuffle an infinite number of times, then you will get each possible arrangement an infinite number of times.

There is some evidence that suggests that space could be infinite, but it's not firmly established; it's also not exactly obvious that time as we experience it existed prior to the Big Bang.

 

[MongGrel]

As suggested, the gist of the argument is that there are only so many ways that atoms can be arranged into structures and if space is infinite (and homogeneous and isotropic), then all the arrangements - no matter how complicated and unlikely - will eventually be repeated (an infinite number of times) if you go far enough. You. The Earth. The solar system. The Milky Way galaxy...

The usual analogy is to the arrangement of a deck of cards. There are a large but finite number of ways the cards can be arranged in the deck. If you shuffle the deck enough times, you'll start to get recurrences of arrangements you've already had. If you shuffle an infinite number of times, then you will get each possible arrangement an infinite number of times.

There is some evidence that suggests that space could be infinite, but it's not firmly established; it's also not exactly obvious that time as we experience it existed prior to the Big Bang.

I'm not intending to demeans anything you have posted, but the monkeys involved with writing Shakespeare does always leap to mind.

There are so many things going on at quantum levels and other areas that have not been researched, let alone biochemical related things it would still be very arrogant for anyone on this planet to think they really have a clue about things in reality myself.

Things progress over time, in a 1000 years the human race may not even look remotely like it does today, at the rate things are going.

I'd guess things may be radically weird in 100 years from now, barring some nuclear incident etc.