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I am not sure if this falls under classical physics or quantum physics or somewhere else (so feel free to put it in the right section), but is there any micro state of the universe one can think of which if evolved under the current laws of nature, inevitably results in outcomes such as a table levitating? That example is just a random one I decided to choose but I'm really asking about any event that would seem like a "miracle" to the ordinary person (i.e. any event that doesn't seem to have an obvious mechanism for it)
In other words, is this probability 0, extremely minuscule, or merely unknown? If it is extremely minuscule, how do physicists know that this is even true? Atleast in the case of ordinary events like a dice roll, we can come up with a local micro state and initial conditions preceding the dice roll that explains exactly why a dice rolls on 6 for example. How would one do this for something like a table levitating?
What about certain specific macro histories such as extraterrestrials evolving, visiting earth, and deciding to interfere with affairs on earth? Is the probability of this extremely minuscule, 0, or merely unknown?
I ask because atleast theoretically, one can imagine a great number of "macro histories" or "miraculous histories" that seem to exceed the number of even possible initial states. The longer this sequence of events is, the more it seems to combinatorially explode in total number. This would imply that the vast majority of macro states cannot be, even in principle, mapped to a particular initial state. So at first glance, it seems that the vast majority of these imaginable sequences of events would not just have a miniscule probability, but rather a probability of 0. But I'm not sure.
In other words, is this probability 0, extremely minuscule, or merely unknown? If it is extremely minuscule, how do physicists know that this is even true? Atleast in the case of ordinary events like a dice roll, we can come up with a local micro state and initial conditions preceding the dice roll that explains exactly why a dice rolls on 6 for example. How would one do this for something like a table levitating?
What about certain specific macro histories such as extraterrestrials evolving, visiting earth, and deciding to interfere with affairs on earth? Is the probability of this extremely minuscule, 0, or merely unknown?
I ask because atleast theoretically, one can imagine a great number of "macro histories" or "miraculous histories" that seem to exceed the number of even possible initial states. The longer this sequence of events is, the more it seems to combinatorially explode in total number. This would imply that the vast majority of macro states cannot be, even in principle, mapped to a particular initial state. So at first glance, it seems that the vast majority of these imaginable sequences of events would not just have a miniscule probability, but rather a probability of 0. But I'm not sure.
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