• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I think, they mean across generations. Theoretically, infinite generations could follow, with therefore infinite new humans.

    Either way, it doesn’t actually need to be infinite, but rather just approaching infinity, to give high enough of a chance for a monkey to produce hamlet. Even just the 8 billion humans alive are already a pretty massive number of monkeys.

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      5 months ago

      But universe is is finite with finite ending. Humans will die out way before the heat death of the universe