Infinite universe declares all unique snowflakes occur infinite number of times.
A chemist, an engineer, and a mathematician are stranded on an island when a can of food rolls ashore. The chemist and engineer debate for hours on different methods to open the can. Then suddenly the mathematician gets a bright idea: “Assume we have a can opener …”
In order to make calculations about the size, scope, and development of the universe, most scientists and mathematicians will assume that the universe is infinite. However, if you assume the universe is infinite, than you’re also making assumptions about possibility and probability. Namely that anything that could possibly happen will happen, and it will happen an infinite number of times.
For example, I’m sitting at my computer and talking to my roommate. If the universe is infinite, then somewhere else in the universe someone who looks and speaks exactly like me is talking to their roommate who looks and speaks exactly like Ellen. Somewhere else, someone who looks like me is talking to a completely different roommate, and somewhere else we’re all doing the same thing but we’re green and have wheels instead of feet. The probability of this happening is infinitely small, but not zero, so in an infinite universe we can’t rule it out as a possibility.
If this is mind-bending or dehumanizing or stressing you out in anyway, don’t sweat it too hard. I’m sure your mom still thinks you are infinitely special!
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Never take your rights, or your education, for granted. Happy International Women’s Day.
Reality Check
Every year 70,000 girls die of complications during pregnancy/after childbirth due to child marriage. That’s approximately 200 girls a day and 8 girls an hour DYING. Early marriage is a death sentence…just felt like putting that out there. I don’t feel as though enough people know this reality.
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become.
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” - Mother Theresa
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” - Mother Theresa
But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn’t cool. That it’s better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it’s so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent. Our culture can get so snarky and ironic sometimes, and we kind of wanted Smart Girls to celebrate the opposite of that.
Amy Poehler, Smart Girls at the Party
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