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Old 17-07-2011, 11:17 AM
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I've seen this page before.....very interesting.

The two point that grab me the most are these....

10^10^10^76.66 years—scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing an isolated black hole of stellar mass.[48] This time assumes a statistical model subject to Poincaré recurrence. A much simplified way of thinking about this time is that in a model where our universe's history repeats itself arbitrarily many times due to properties of statistical mechanics, this is the time scale when it will first be somewhat similar (for a reasonable choice of "similar") to its current state again.

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10^10^10^10^2.08 years—scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing a black hole with the mass within the presently visible region of our universe.[48] This time assumes a statistical model subject to Poincaré recurrence. A much simplified way of thinking about this time is that in a model where our universe's history repeats itself arbitrarily many times due to properties of statistical mechanics, this is the time scale when it will first be somewhat similar (for a reasonable choice of "similar") to its current state again.

Basically saying this....after a ridiculously long period of time, the Universe will return to a state very similar in which we find it today. Then it'll go through the whole process again, until another ridiculously long period of time after the previous one, it'll return to that same state. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
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