Preamble
No two randomly shuffled decks of the standard 52 playing cards have ever turned up in the same order, ever, in the history of the universe.
Never.
Not even once.
It is basically a mathematical certainty that this is true.
Modern people like to talk a lot about Infinity.
Maybe you’ve noticed?
It’s a recurring conceit in fiction, for example. Infinity is the theme of countless “smart” YouTube videos. For a certain class of person, it’s become something of a pastime to wax philosophic about the “infinite number of numbers” between 1 and 2. There’s a whole type of guy out there who enjoys bringing up pi and talking about how its digits never stop, or other numbers like it, e for example, or The Golden Ratio.
See, everyone is talking out their ass.
“When the universe was a few minutes old it was incredibly dense and very hot. So much so you see that hydrogen could fuse into helium and then, a few million years after that, all the hydrogen and helium became stars and then after a billion or so years those stars made all the heavier elements and then…”
Fuck off.
Like, seriously.
Be real for a second here because there is zero damn chance that you know what happened “when the universe was a few minutes old.”
Zero.
