Poll: Everything Exists.

[SacremPyrobolum]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

It like the infinate amount of monkeys typing on an infinate amount of keyboards will at some point get you a complete library of all the books ever written.

Do you agree with this?

 

[JochemDude]

Everything is possible, not everything is plausible.

 

[Lukeje]

You seem to be under the impression that space is infinite. This is a plausibly false assumption.

 

[orangebandguy]

No. If space is continually expanding then surely it has a limitation, it just increases real fast.

Kind of reminds me of Olber's paradox. (I think it's Olber's??)

 

[Klumpfot]

Nope. To the best of our knowledge, there is not an infinity of matter in the universe, and it is all governed by the same physical laws. It is therefore somewhere between preposterously unlikely and impossible that there is a sentience out there that has dedicated its time and attention to creating an endless set of keyboards, with a mechanism or organism for putting in random information, for the sole purpose of recording the output.

Fun thought experiment if you don't bring reality into it though!

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

Nope. To the best of our knowledge, there is not an infinity of matter in the universe, and it is all governed by the same physical laws. It is therefore somewhere between preposterously unlikely and impossible that there is a sentience out there that has dedicated its time and attention to creating an endless set of keyboards, with a mechanism or organism for putting in random information, for the sole purpose of recording the output.

Fun thought experiment if you don't bring reality into it though!

Imagine it, every video game you ever played has taken place somewhere in the universe.

 

[baconsarnie]

Space isn't quite infinite, probably.
Some things can only exist in an imagination or non-physical representation of that. The force, sauron, star trek, a uranium nucleus with no neutrons etc

 

[Queen Michael]

That we've got space to fit everything in doesn't mean that the stuff there's room for actually is there.

 

[Klumpfot]

Nope. To the best of our knowledge, there is not an infinity of matter in the universe, and it is all governed by the same physical laws. It is therefore somewhere between preposterously unlikely and impossible that there is a sentience out there that has dedicated its time and attention to creating an endless set of keyboards, with a mechanism or organism for putting in random information, for the sole purpose of recording the output.

Fun thought experiment if you don't bring reality into it though!

Imagine it, every video game you ever played has taken place somewhere in the universe.

~Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try~

I can imagine it, but it is physically impossible for every video game (or arguably -any- video game) I've played to have a corresponding scenario that either has happened, or will happen.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Imagine it, every video game you ever played has taken place somewhere in the universe.

Every video game you played in every way. Every thought you ever had. Every idea, every emotion.
All this and much more.

 

[6unn3r]

As stated by the Hitchikers guide, everything must grow on trees somewhere in the galaxy.

I look forward to the day when they find the "chocolate hooker tree" planet

 

[UltraBlumpkin]

Your title and question are in contrast with each other. "Everything exists" is not the same as "Is anything possible". Yes some things are possible, thus the qualifier for 'anything' is met. But I think you mean to phrase your question differently. "Is Everything possible?" is a very different question.

 

[Quoth]

Even if infinite space exists, it does not necessarily follow that all of time exists.
All that can happen has not yet happened.

 

[kurokotetsu]

As noted above, ohysical laws work equally in all the Universe and there seems to be a finite number of particles. These restricitons limit the possibilities. For example, you can't violate the conservation of mass-energy, so most forms of what we call "magic" is absolutly ruled out. Chemical laws rule out certain interactions between atoms and molecules (you can't expect organic compounds featuring large amounts of Helium, for example) and other so limitations. So no, not everything is possible. Also the time the Universe has been existing isn't infinte, so even if all posible combinations could happen, they haven't had enough time to happen (In your example, if you look at the monkeys at a finite or rather not large enough amount of time, they wouldn't have completed the task expected of them).

If space was infinite, then everything and everything would be happening at the same time, therefore there would be a counter-effect to every effect, therefore nothing would be happening.

Logic debunks your theory.

While logically this argument makes sense, in a reality, limitation to the transfer of information (namely the Theory of Relativity) would invalidate it, as even if the counter effect is happening somewhere, it may be far enough that it doesn't counter the effect immedialty, making it that things actually happen.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

if you had infinite monkeys with infinite keyboards, they would all need to first read and memorise every work of fiction, as well as learn proper use of a keyboard, computer and the word processor of your choice. you'd also have to teach them proper grammar and syntax, as well as to read. given the commonality of grammatical and spelling mistakes by humans, this would be a near impossible task, as monkey childhood is too short to develop a brain close to ours, and reading a lot of texts, tweets and forum posts you can see that not every human can do that. not to mention the cost of not only the keyboards, but towers, mice and monitors and power. if you use the original typewriter (the phrase is basically 1000 monkeys+1000 typewriters=complete works of Shakespeare) then you need paper and ink, not to mention maintenance because typewriters are shit. plus, if Shakespeare alone requires 1000 monkeys, then think about all the other playwrights, and film adaptations, shorthand versions, Cliff notes and technically school notebooks and essays. you'd need infinite space to store all this, and a beast of a cooling system. monkeys would also fall victim to primal urges and nature, so you'd need cleaners to get rid of infinite amounts of monkey-shit and keep the babies out of there. then of course PETA would picket you for this.
So we come to the conclusion: why not let the machines do it.

 

[JoshGod]

Everything exists, nothing is something, thus nothing exists. Problem?
OT
Is space infinite? Also just because something could be does not mean that it is.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

In this universe not everything exists. If the Many-worlds interpretation is correct then there are an infinite number of universes in the multiverse and everything exists.

 

[LilithSlave]

There's more reason to believe that there are infinite universes than believe than our current universe is infinite.

Our universe started from a quantum fluctuation and expanded from that. And there are naturally limits to the expansion of it. Limits to not only space, but time. It could not only be expending, but it could hit a physical limit and contract. Even contracting to the point it would cause a universal crunch.

However, it is still possible that everything exists, with the multiverse theory. There could be many and even infinite universes.

The best case scenario we can hope for is multiple, instead of infinite universes, ethically. And that we are not heading to either a heat death or a universal crunch.

 

[Smooth Operator]

In theory yes, but with varied probability.
What is the chance that a tossed coin lands and stands on it's side, near none, and yet it's there.
What is the chance of a squared planet, near none, and yet it's there.


As all dimensions (space, time, and others...) have no limits it theoretically means everything no matter how small the probability will at some point happen.
But we can't imagine infinity and so can't really imagine the full frame of this phenomenon.

 

[rsacks]

"Suppose that 10^10 monkeys have been seated at typewriters throughout the age of the universe, approximately 10^18 seconds. [...] We suppose that a monkey can hit 10 typewriter keys per second. A typewriter may have 44 keys; we accept lowercase letters in place of capital letters. Assuming that Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' has 10^5 characters, the probability of randomly typing out Hamlet is 10^(-164345) in total and 10^(-164316) that it will occur in the current lifetime of the universe [sic]" - Taken from "Thermal Physics, Second Edition" by Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer, page 53.

Please don't come back with "Well it's still a finite probability so it COULD happen!" The numbers we are talking about are so astronomically close to zero that it would never ever happen (no computer will accept those numbers as anything other than 0).

Also, space and time are not infinite, please refer the phenomenon known as the heat death of the universe. If both space and time were infinite, then thermodynamics would not work.