Is Randomness Infinite?

Question

I recently wrote my term paper on the subject. I couldn't find anything published on this theroy so I'll call it mine. Ok take a square foot of asphalt. I believe somewhere on our planet there is another sqare foot of asphalt exactly like it, as in the rocks are the same composition, color and are placed in the exact same patterns. The reason is that nature cannot be infinite, there are billions of rocks in asphalt for thousands of miles, it just seems impossible for them all to be different.
The second part of this paper was in shapes. I compared randomness with earth and space. I used the sphere as my example. In our universe I have noticed that it is the shape used most, planets, stars galaxies, on earth your fingernails, eyes, and even the wheel. How is it a spiral galaxy and a hurricane look alike, or swirling water in a bathtub drain and a seashell? Could it be tidal forces, or is there just not an infinite amount of shapes nature created?

Answer 1

The reason why the shape of lots of objects is a sphere is because it is the way the potential energy is the lowest (for the gravitational field, And as you say for tidal forces since they are -AdS and for a volume fixed, the minimum surface is the one given for the sphere.)
This explains stars, planets, water drops...
Why is it that a spiral galaxy and a hurricane look alike, I don't know, but for swirlong water, it is simply a matter of scale. It is the same phenomenom but in diferent scales.

But what you don't take into account is the fact that in the atomic scale, there aren't two objects that are much alike.
Probably if in macroscopic view lots of object look the same, it is because their shapes are (at the begining at least) the solutions of diff equations that are much alike.

Answer 2

U are looking at your asphalt and declaring exactness when it is not. U need to refine your measurement standards as u would have billions of samples to find a sample 70% a perfect duplicate of the other.

Answer 3

For randomness to be infinite the universe would have to be infinite also.
The universe is a finite entity and will one day come to an end.
Randomness can only exist as long as the universe is in existence.

Answer 4

Hi. Well, no two trees are identical, they simply resemble each other. Almost fractal like. So I think randomness has no limit. (Infinite is a pretty strong word.)

Answer 5

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