system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If there are a finite number of atoms in the entire universe, that means there is still a finite number of permutations of atoms possible. Can our very existence occur again then on a infinite time scale if we are just made out of a certain permutation atoms?
gpt
The thing is, the universe might continue to grow rapidly enough with density decreasing enough that the probability tends more and more towards zero to the point where it would likely never happen even on an infinite time scale. It's kind of like how a 3D random walk, after a while, will likely never return to the starting point even given an infinite amount of time.