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This is one of the hardest things to grasp about the size of the universe; it's so damn big pretty much anything is possible somewhere.

• vlovich123 3y ago
  Conversely, anything we do manage to observe is more likely to lay within most common probability space simply because we’re similarly observing such a tiny portion of what’s happening in the universe. Think about if you sample uniformly 0.01% of 1B requests / second coming into your system - you’re going to see all the common scenarios and none of the uncommon ones. Sure space isn’t quite the same thing since we don’t observe uniformly, but similarly we’re observing an infinitely smaller part of the overall space anyway.
• vinaypai 3y ago
  The universe is big, but we're only observing a miniscule fraction of it, especially at the level of individual star systems.
  • burnte 3y ago
    That doesn't really have any relevance, though. Every single possibility is as likely as the others, it's just there are many more situations in which a system will look "normal", but we still shouldn't be overly surprised by the occasional outlier, we're bound to stumble on them even if rarely.