2:55 am thoughts

the following is a copy-pasted set of notes I wrote on my phone at 2:55 am after getting annoyed by a TikTok.i think the idea of complaining about a TikTok is funny, and what people write when they're half asleep is equally funny. so i figured my nearly 3 am ranting might be entertaining to somebody out there. if thats not you, feel free to skip this. As an aside, im writing this on my pbone, so apologies in advance for the bad grammar and spelling. also there's a cat bumping my hand while i type cause i am not petting her every single second

I hate that dumb people are consistently the most likely to post on social media, and will invariably say the dumbest shit that annoys me to all hell.

This guy was arguing "dude, but what if physics is all a coincidence???" And cites the library of babel as a demonstration that randomness will produce seemingly meaningful patterns given this randomness is stretched to infinity. But the problem with this assertion as it relates to physics is that if all the laws of physics are random in that in each interaction between a set of particles, a random outcome may occur, only a set of those would produce results consistent with current laws of physics, the vast majority would not, and the distribution of these interactions adhering to current laws of physics would necessarily render our observations impossible. Thus, if we presume that each physical interaction produces a random result, we would observe this random result (or more accurately we wouldn't because we wouldn't and couldn't exist), rather than observe reliable results. A potential rebuttal could be that the infinite scale of the universe suggests that there is a 100% chance that there would be a section of the universe that, by sheer chance, adheres to the set of physical laws that we have observed thus far, and although I would concede this assuming a truly infinite universe in that it is a universe that is not just infinite in scale but also variability, however there is no evidence to suggest the universe has this infinite variability, and thus the assertion is meaningless, as is my concession. I may as well concede that if pigs could fly, it would definitely change the way that pig farms are operated. True, it would, but pigs can't fly, so what's the point?

The library of babel contains everything humans have written and ever could write because it has infinite variability, not because it is infinite in scale. It is feasible that you may have an infinite expanse of largely nothingness that contains the same sets of rules that govern the stretches of finite space that contains matter and energy.