Yup.
Fewer, I'm sure. But if one has an infinite number of typists, the results must surely come about.
Nope, there are time and space constraints in the universe. Fill it with typing monkeys since t=0+ till now and the probability of their typing a Shakespearean Sonnet is still operationally zero.
A universe filled with typing monkeys would collapse gravitationally, if you get my point.
However, nothing was said about conducting this experiment in the Universe. It is a mathematical proposition, and as such, has only mathematical constraints.
These days, we don't need mechanical typewriters, or monkeys either, for the experiment. One can easily set up a computer to produce letters at random. How many computers, and how long would it take before recognizable words and sentence fragments might appear?
My reference above to Dan Brown indicates that random letters tend to fall into recognizable patterns fairly quickly.
I am learning so much from Dinesh’s book, starting with the open militancy of the “new Atheists”. His point so far is of course that it is Christianity upon which Western Civilization was founded to which it has brought the ideas that even atheists and the secularists claim as cherished ideals (such as the separation of church and state).
(Dinesh traces this principle which we in this country have now converted into “separation of religion from the state” from the very words of Jesus Christ who said, “Render unto Ceasar that which is Caesar’s and unto God, that which is God’s.”)
I am trying to read it slowly to digest and retain as much as possible. He talks about the Biblical illiteracy of modern America....along with the open anti-Christian, anti-God, militancy of many in our day.
Yes, I did manage to see the debate - part of it - between Dinesh and Christopher Hitchens which was absolutely spellbinding. I could have watched that all day.