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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can also call it quantum sort since there is non zero probability that it will sort itself by random flips

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would actually have happened an infinite amount of times already, if either the universe is infinite, or there are infinite universes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I really deeply hope the universe is finite for this reason. Every great or terrible thing always happens forever, there is no causality or consequence.