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Originally Posted by wiggums
I'm assuming that the jackpot doesn't have 1 prize. I'm not convinced that something could actually only take place and cause itself to never occur again.
Ok, I won't assume that matter will spawn, but you can't assume that matter can't be destroyed either.
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The matter doesn't have to be destroyed, just dispersed with trajectories that prevent it from ever meeting again (luckily it has infinite space to do this in).
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If a star collapsed, who is to say that the exact same matter/energy won't somehow be recreated in the exact same way? It's extremely unlikely, sure, but that's where my jackpot comment comes in.
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As far as we know, all the energy/matter came into existence with the creation of space-time. If this happened again, would that be a different universe? I suppose how that's how I was viewing it. One universe consisting of a certain amount of matter/energy from it's initiation, and that another one doesn't/couldn't/won't happen(?) inside another.
Another thing to consider is that space time didn't exist until the big bang, so it can't really be said to be a time-probable event. As far as we know, time didn't exist to lead up to it happening, so it might not really be applicable to apply it to happening "again" given enough time...because it includes/created/IS time.