Cosmic Journeys: The Infinite Monkey Theorem... in 1080p

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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2010

For those who haven't seen "Is the Universe Infinite?", here's a re-enactment of the famous paradox known as the "infinite monkey theorem."

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  • Those are apes, not monkeys.

  • perhaps shakespeare was a monkey...

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  • The Moral of this is that god did not create earth...

    It was simply luck.

    Just how it is luck that the monkey typed Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  • @stuffedk How can you proof something is infinite? ask your self that before commenting.

  • @lowtalkerr No, this is misconception. 

  • @rich1051414 It may or may not happen. Despite the fact that you deal with infinity, it doesn't mean monkeys are guarantied to accomplish this task. That is because they type randomly, NOT every combination of letters. It's called the zero-one law.

  • @QuickRefs Simply to emphasize the absurdity of this certainty if we do live in an infinite universe. If you believe the universe is infinite, you also MUST believe this WILL happen. Obviously 'monkey' was used to insult the theory as being absurd.

  • @ParadoxEternal The time scale being INFINITE means that every conceivable possibility will be typed out, which of course includes the complete works of Shakespeare. There are 5 year Olds who probably understand this concept, you should be a little embarrassed that you do not. It is a mathematical certainty, not a nonsense theory.

  • sooooo, monkeys plagerise?

  • Future spoiler: In the future hackers will guess your password using methods evolving alternate universes and an infinite number of monkeys...

  • There is no real proof or indication of infinite universes, therefore the only absurdity is to assume it. If it was true however, then I don't see the problem.

  • @QuickRefs good question

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