Weekend Thought

I didn’t watch the video Kottke posted, but this line about what you would encounter while traveling through the universe blew my mind:

But after a long time, you might find the most special thing in the universe: Yourself. An exact copy of you watching this video right now. How can that be? Well, everything in existence is made of a finite amount of different particles. And a finite number of different particles can only be combined in a finite number of ways.

So it’s like LEGO houses; if I gave everyone 1000 blocks, at some point, two people would make identical houses. And if I continued indefinitely, at some point, every option would repeat because there are a finite number of blocks even though there are infinite block structures.

Putting this into your brain today.