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21 Nov 2010, 6:12 pm

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

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21 Nov 2010, 6:13 pm

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if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

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21 Nov 2010, 6:58 pm

Though we can't really KNOW what is impossible [save for wordplay].

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21 Nov 2010, 7:05 pm

Philologos wrote:

Though we can't really KNOW what is impossible [save for wordplay].

Do you mean to say it is impossible to know what is impossible. And that you know that?

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21 Nov 2010, 10:15 pm

Philologos wrote:

Though we can't really KNOW what is impossible [save for wordplay].

It is impossible to construct a triangle with four vertices.

And before you say it, a tetrahedron is not a triangle.

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21 Nov 2010, 10:18 pm

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The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

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I love this answer.

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21 Nov 2010, 10:33 pm

ruveyn wrote:

thedaywalker wrote:

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

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It is impossible to wait that long.

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21 Nov 2010, 10:58 pm

thedaywalker wrote:

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

No. Some things, given certain facts about reality, will not happen, regardless of how much time one has.

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21 Nov 2010, 11:24 pm

Well, someone invented the internet.

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22 Nov 2010, 5:24 am

i think eventually when time and matter have deformed deteriated orformed something new there wil be a triangle constructed out of 4 sides instead of 3

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22 Nov 2010, 5:50 am

thedaywalker wrote:

i think eventually when time and matter have deformed deteriated orformed something new there wil be a triangle constructed out of 4 sides instead of 3

Abstractions are not realities. The definition of a triangle is a three sided two dimensional geometric figure. It cannot be a triangle if it has more or less than three sides.

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22 Nov 2010, 6:45 pm

thedaywalker wrote:

i think eventually when time and matter have deformed deteriated orformed something new there wil be a triangle constructed out of 4 sides instead of 3

That would make it a rectangle!

If you had said "someone will construct a triangle with angles who's sum will be more than 180 degrees" that would be less nonsensicle (even though its just as impossible on a flat euclidean plane).
The number of sides is part of the definition of a triangle. The number of degrees of the angles is just an attribute that all triangles happened to have.

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23 Nov 2010, 12:04 am

ruveyn wrote:

thedaywalker wrote:

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

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However, if anything is possible, no matter how improbable it is, it will happen given enough time.

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23 Nov 2010, 1:42 am

JNathanK wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

thedaywalker wrote:

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

ruveyn

However, if anything is possible, no matter how improbable it is, it will happen given enough time.

No.

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23 Nov 2010, 6:09 am

JNathanK wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

thedaywalker wrote:

if time is endless is then not everything inevitable?

The impossible cannot happen no matter how long one waits.

ruveyn

However, if anything is possible, no matter how improbable it is, it will happen given enough time.

Not necessarily. The Cosmos has a limited shelf life.

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23 Nov 2010, 9:42 am

Thank you - I hoped someone would save me from pointing that out.

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