Quote from: TheRealSteve on March 04, 2014, 03:13:46 PM

Quote from: BlockChainLottery on March 04, 2014, 02:40:38 PM

Simple crude calculation:

Timeline:
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Entropy is a bitch.

The crudeness in this is really the timeline. While we have a pretty good idea of roughly (in billions of years or so) when the big bang was, the sun accumulated enough mass, when it'll burn out and eventually the heat death of the universe, these are relatively fixed points in time and they aren't going to move around on that timeline very much.

For finding a key collision,

it could just as easily be: , you finding k
big bang sun was born now. / sun dies existing stars burn out all matter evaporated
|-------------|---------------||-------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------|
0 9.2e9 13.8e9 19e9 1e15 1e34

( not to scale Wink

)
It's just that the odds of that being the case are very, very, very (rinse and repeat a lot) low. Of course the odds are exactly the same for your point along the timeline, or for any other point along the timeline within the bounds as proposed, to the point where statistically speaking it doesn't make sense to even try.

That is very nice

and perhaps this scale is not bad at all.

I would just change 1 thing

Quote from: TheRealSteve on March 04, 2014, 03:13:46 PM

   ,you finding k
big bang sun was born now. sun dies existing stars burn out / all matter evaporated
   |-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------|----------------------------|-------------|
   0 9.2e9 13.8e9 19e9 1e15 1e34