IDIC is a concept. This idea originally sprang from a Star Trek poster, a book, and some creativity. Presuming that the Universe is infinite in size, and has an infinite amount of matter:
- There will be an infinite number of planets.
- Since there is an infinite number of planets, even through the probability of having a planet exactly like this one is extremly improbable, it will occur eventually.
- Since there is a planet exactly like this one, in an infinite number of possibilities there must be an infinite number of planets just like this one, at this exact moment.
- Since there is an infinite number of planets just like this one, anything that is possible, even with the most improbable possibility on this planet, will occur an infinite number of times on some portion of the infinite number of planets.
- The smallest probability possible is a fraction with a denominator increasing to infinity. Therefore, the least likely thing has a 1 in infinite probabilty of happening.
- Since there are an infinite number of planets exactly like ours, and the smallest probability is 1 in infinite, anything is possible.
So if you're ever having a rough day and wish that it would end in a firey death for everyone around you.. be happy, it happened for someone on some distant planet! Maybe it could be you next.