Stupid thought du jour

[NuclearNed]

Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

disagree. everything is bicyclical.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

disagree. everything is bicyclical.

Your philosophy is deeper than mine.

 

[NuclearNed]

<sigh> no bites.

Here is my rationale: if you have an infinite number of monkeys, each with a typewriter, one of them will eventually bang out War and Peace by hitting random keys, given enough time. If you have a seriously long amount of time, this same event will happen multiple times.

So in other words, with a sufficiently large span of time, the entirety of human history will reoccur exactly in the same way, over and over again.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
<sigh> no bites.

Here is my rationale: if you have an infinite number of monkeys, each with a typewriter, one of them will eventually bang out War and Peace by hitting random keys, given enough time. If you have a seriously long amount of time, this same event will happen multiple times.

So in other words, with a sufficiently large span of time, the entirety of human history will reoccur exactly in the same way, over and over again.

i don't see it happening the EXACT samy way. but pretty damn close.



edit. not to mention what you are talking about would make time in a circle. I would think its more of a spiral.

 

[ggnl]

Maybe what you mean to say is "There is nothing new under the sun."

 

[Roguestar]

not today

 

[So]

Nope, straight line.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

disagree. everything is bicyclical.

The real question is, does the universe need training wheels?

 

[clamum]

Ask yourself this: Why are zebras black and white instead of red and orange? Eh? Eh?

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: clamum
Ask yourself this: Why are zebras black and white instead of red and orange? Eh? Eh?

Because it is camouflage. It breaks up their outline to predators who can only see in black and white.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: clamum
Ask yourself this: Why are zebras black and white instead of red and orange? Eh? Eh?

Because black and white paints are cheaper.

 

[daveshel]

Just because something happens again doesn't mean it's a cycle.

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
<sigh> no bites.

Here is my rationale: if you have an infinite number of monkeys, each with a typewriter, one of them will eventually bang out War and Peace by hitting random keys, given enough time. If you have a seriously long amount of time, this same event will happen multiple times.

So in other words, with a sufficiently large span of time, the entirety of human history will reoccur exactly in the same way, over and over again.

The internet has proven otherwise. :laugh:

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

pi isn't cyclical no matter how long you give it. Or sqrt(2)

Originally posted by: clamum
Ask yourself this: Why are zebras black and white instead of red and orange? Eh? Eh?

Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

pi isn't cyclical no matter how long you give it. Or sqrt(2)

pi isn't an event. To be fair, I'll restate my hypothesis:

Given enough time, every event will occur an infinite number of times in exactly the same way, and therefore is cyclical.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Just because something happens again doesn't mean it's a cycle.

True, but when an event happens an infinite number of times in exactly the same way, it is cyclical. Given enough time, those monkeys are going to bang out War and Peace an infinite number of times, and the period between instances will become more and more regular as one reaches infinity.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

So all this has happened before? Are you talking about reincarnation?

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
So all this has happened before? Are you talking about reincarnation?

No, I'm thinking on a much larger scale over longer periods of time. Also, reincarnation makes the assumption that there is a soul that can be reborn repeatedly - that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm getting at is that given a enormous amount of time, everything happens over and over again exactly the same.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

disagree. everything is bicyclical.

The real question is, does the universe need training wheels?

no, but it needs to be potty trained.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

disagree. everything is bicyclical.

The real question is, does the universe need training wheels?

no, but it needs to be potty trained.

I thought thats what black holes were for?

 

[AmpedSilence]

i'm going with time is sprilly, like a previous poster said.

Well, it could be cyclic, they do say that the Big Bang happens, the universe expands, then starts to collapse on itself and another big bang happens. So maybe what we are doing happened already countless billion years ago in a previous universe under a different Big Bang than the one we are under now?

weird thought.

 

[Sqube]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
So all this has happened before? Are you talking about reincarnation?

No, I'm thinking on a much larger scale over longer periods of time. Also, reincarnation makes the assumption that there is a soul that can be reborn repeatedly - that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm getting at is that given a enormous amount of time, everything happens over and over again exactly the same.

Better question: Practically speaking, does it matter? I mean, time on that scale is beyond human comprehension anyway.

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
...if you have an infinite number of monkeys, each with a typewriter, one of them will eventually bang out War and Peace by hitting random keys, given enough time...

Isn't that statistically impossible?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Given enough time, everything is cyclical.

Agree or disagree?

Fully agree.