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To: Physicist
Of course. What do you think I meant by "long enough"?

The problem is that the universe is finite (15 billions years?) - you do not have infinite time for all special cases. Some "special cases" cannot possibly occur even within the timeframe of the age of the universe, e.g. the self-assembly of a protein molecule for example.

3,172 posted on 01/06/2003 10:06:35 AM PST by exmarine
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To: exmarine
Some "special cases" cannot possibly occur even within the timeframe of the age of the universe, e.g. the self-assembly of a protein molecule for example.

LOL, so that's where you were going with that.

I wasn't going in that direction, myself. Since you bring it up, however, I'll point out that much larger molecules than proteins self-assemble on a very short timescale, so you might want to re-think how you calculate those probabilities. The science of doing that is called chemistry.

3,176 posted on 01/06/2003 10:28:09 AM PST by Physicist
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