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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'.

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