An infinitely existing primeval atom would have afforded an infinite number of opportunities for such a change to occur, and any one of these opportunities could have occurred an infinitely long time ago. Why then would a sudden change occur only a finite time ago if there had been an infinite number of opportunities for such a change of state to occur over an infinite time? As physicists Anthony Aguirre and John Kehayias have noted, “It is very difficult to devise a system—especially a quantum one—that does nothing ‘forever,’ then evolves. A truly stationary or periodic quantum state, which
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