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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 hours agoWhat’s more fucked is the “perfect container” thought experiment with infinity.
Take for an example an apple, you put it in your “perfect container” that nothing can pass thru. This is a hypothetical, it doesn’t exist.
What happens to the apple?
Fucking everything. It will rot and degrade, eventually breaking down to fundamental elements, but all the energy/matter to make an apple is in there. On an infinite timeline that stuff will go thru every possible permeation. Including an exact and perfect copy of the very same apple. Even if it takes billions and billions of years.
Maybe at some point in the middle. You get an orange.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
no because entropy.
an apple is more like an ice sculpture. energetically far from equilibrium. once reduced to a puddle, the molecules will never spontaneously rearrange into the sculpture. It will just be a puddle. the molecules, yes, will constantly rearrange, into also, a puddle.
there has to be a force to act on them to push them out of equilibrium.
life is a state of matter held far from equilibrium.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Way too early for this shit.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Blame plants. Get back at them by smoking/ drinking some of them.