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Subject: How many possibilities for 6,000,000,000 pieces?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 00:42:18 01/24/01

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Tania,

I wonder what the number of possibilities there are for the 6 billion people on
the face of the Earth.  And just think of the 100 trillion cells in each person.
Then you have millions of other species and if that is not enough, we have all
the chaos of the atmosphere,the landmasses and the oceans interacting with all
those organisms.

It all boils down to: There is a universe and it had a beginning and may have an
end.  Don't get too enthralled by the mathematical possibilities of any closed
systems.

Chess is more complicated than checkers.
The universe is infinitely more complicated than chess.


Tim Frohlick



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