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Published on Jul 18, 2012

A paper by Don Page claimed to use the longest finite time ever calculated by a physicist - it's the time it will take the Universe to reset itself!?!

Video featuring Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham.

Read the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411193

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  • gingeas

    gingeas 3 weeks ago

    5:47 was genius!

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  • gingeas

    gingeas 1 week ago

    No...I meant what happens at that time in the video! They were talking about the Poincaré Recurrence time and they repeated the segment of the video. I honestly thought it was pretty funny.

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  • anothergol

    anothergol 18 hours ago

    But a recurrence also requires the system to keep evolving - can't we imagine that the system just stops at one point & just stays like it is?

    I mean, if you stop picking cards, no chance for a recurrence.

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  • zombiegun71

    zombiegun71 1 day ago

    ah

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  • Ryan Jiang

    Ryan Jiang 1 day ago

    Yes, but it is the longest time used in a proof

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  • MultiGoban

    MultiGoban 1 day ago

    HHAAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA­H :3

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  • Skybird1525

    Skybird1525 2 days ago

    oops, i fail at calaulations, but it's actually

    10^11000 years

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    Skybird1525 2 days ago

    10^1100000 years...

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  • headkraber

    headkraber 2 days ago

    Damn reapers harvesting us each cycle.

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  • iamtheonewhoyoulove

    iamtheonewhoyoulove 2 days ago

    0)_(0

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  • fico tronic

    fico tronic 3 days ago

    E, to the e, to theeeee....

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  • Leesa Brown

    Leesa Brown 3 days ago

    No one can observe the repetition because they wouldn't survive that length of time? Doctor, get the TARDIS!

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