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Exactly. The probability that shards will meld into a glass pane and water will form a snowman is nonzero, but simply very low. There are no absolutes here.
by tormeh 13y ago
Exactly. The probability that shards will meld into a glass pane and water will form a snowman is nonzero, but simply very low. There are no absolutes here.
- logicchains 13y agoIf the many worlds interpretation of waveform collapse is correct, it's possible that there's actually a universe somewhere in which the entire arctic is covered in such snowmen.
- evanb 13y agoThe many worlds interpretation of wavefunction NON-collapse, I think you mean :). And it is a guarantee that if it is not physically impossible for it to have happened, there is a branch of the universal wavefunction as you describe.
- lloeki 13y agoI can't find the reference to the giant marshmallow hypothesis, stating that it perfectly probable (although possibly scarcely) that there exists a giant marshmallow that formed somewhere in space out of sheer luck. Probably Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.