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If you enjoyed that notion, you'll probably like this one too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole#Dirac.27s_qua...

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I'll see your Mangetic Monopole, and raise you a Boltzmann Brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

I will see your Boltzmann brain, and raise you Infinite monkey Theorem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

In 2003, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes Crested Macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website.

Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five pages consisting largely of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it.

Wild! The original seems down, but archive.org has copies: http://web.archive.org/web/20031203230517/http://www.vivaria...

I will see your infinite monkey theorem and raise you Bicameralism (psychology).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

By request, I'll see your Bicameralism and raise you the Banach-Tarsky Paradox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

Hence the old mathematicians' joke:

I say, I say, I say, can you find an anagram of BANACH-TARSKI?

Yes: BANACH-TARSKI BANACH-TARSKI.

(Mathematicians' sense of humour doesn't necessarily resemble anyone else's.)

Keep going, and you'll most likely end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

Back on topic with physics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time#Overview

Really late to the party, but I've always wanted to ask this: people say with infinite entropy every combination will occur eventually, but can't you have an infinity of gibberish?

this is hilarious, guys. keep it goin'.

I had to turn my lurker-cloak shield off and tip my hat to you my friend I have never heard of this! I remember my Quantum teacher introducing the concept of a one electron universe, and at the time it sounded like some 19th century type explaining that glass is a liquid, but this, my dear God... this is amazing.

Thank you kind sir.

Now combine this idea with the Heat Death of the Universe...

Here's an exciting ramble from Sean Carroll about possible Boltzmann Brains in our real universe: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/08/22/the-higg...

Yeah, that's really cool. Isn't the argument: if there exists a magnetic monopole anywhere in the universe, and angular momentum is quantized, then charge must also be quantized.

Nothing has made me wish for magnetic monopoles more.

The best part? A serious experiment detected precisely one unexplained monopole event in a monopole detector [1].

The result is unexplained, and probably always will be. Subsequent searches have turned up nothing.

You only need one... :).

[1] http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v48/i20/p1378_1

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