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If we can map all possible ways of making the material, surely one of them must be the ancient technique.
by stephengillie 8y ago
If we can map all possible ways of making the material, surely one of them must be the ancient technique.
- jmcgough 8y agoSure, but we'd still never know which way in particular was used, so it's "lost" in the sense that we can't know what it was to replicate it exactly.
- sagebird 8y agoIf we arrange all possible combinations of letters into strings, then we can have all the books which burned in Alexandria. But if you had to walk along an isle in the library of the superset of all possible books, you would die before you came across one that existed. And if you could live forever, there would be uncountable minor varations variations of imposter books before the actual one.