True or false: Everything will repeat itself again & again in a finite universe with endless time forever.?

Question

Imagination helps in this answer.

Answer 1

Our knowable Universe is finite: out to our event horizon is a sphere 40 billion lightyears in diameter. This Universe is only 13.7 billion years old.

In this finite volume of spacetime is a finite amont of energy, distributed among a finite number of particle fields. These particle fields are quantized.

Therefore, the total number of possible "histories of the Universe" is finite. Huge, but finite.

Many modern cosmologies, however, speculate that there are an infinite number of Big Bangs. There may be "Eternal Continuous Inflation", giving rise to an infinite number of non-intersecting Big Bang regions.

If there are an infinite number of Big Bangs, and the possible number of histories of the Universe is finite, than this one, the one we're in (which is obviously one of the possible ones) will occur an infinite number of times, endlessly into the future.

But fortunately, not our future---it's the future of some unreachable meta-Universe. Our Universe will expand away and die, in the ordinary way.

Answer 2

Only if you keep thinking about the same thing. Actually even then I'll bet it's a little different each time. I always hate it when people say everything is always the same. I used to think that, but therapists tell us it's a lack of imagination and information. I'd say it's a lack or observation, being in the past instead of the present looking at the past. We understand that food and drink are to pass through us. Cells are created, die and leave, but we hold on to the same old ideas that don't work forever. Ideas that were only good a second ago or last week. That's why the world creeps along as far as actual progress goes even with the activity of six billion people with less than optimal imagination or new thoughts. That's what I think anyway. Like nature hates a vacuum, it hates a repetion. I worked on an assembly line and every piece was different, it was exasperating.

Answer 3

Yes, it's true. Here's an example:
True or false: Everything will repeat itself again & again in a finite universe with endless time forever.?
Imagination helps in this answer.

Answer 4

False. Certain patterns emerge again and again, but the exact state of the universe as it is at a given time will never recur. Thermodynamic considerations (entropy) give time a definite direction, so a closed system like the universe can't change and then go back to what it was.

Answer 5

This is very true. The only reason why this vicious cycle repeats is because the solution rests with previous finite group. Therefore the current group of who or whatever is doomed to the problems and setbacks of the previous. One very huge example of this question is life. Happens everyday over and over.

Answer 6

False: Based on our current understanding of physics all energy in this universe will be diffused by entropy until eventually there are no energy differentials and the universe is at a steady state where no work can possibly be done.

Things may repeat themselve until entropy is achived but not after.

Answer 7

Technically and actually this question is whats called a paradox and can't be properly answered because the question either contradicts itself or implies a situation that is impossible. If something is "finite" it can't possibly repeat itself.

Answer 8

I have to go with "True"....
history does repeat itself, I think we're doomed to repeat things over and over "until we get it right".

Here's an example: Genocide in Darfur = Nazi Concentration camps = Macedonian wars of Alexander the Great. All wiping out race/creed/color.

Operation Iraqi Disaster = Viet Nam = US Civil War. All "wars" of futility and unwinnable actions.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

False: Although things repeat themselves sometimes the same thing can't happen over and over again.