Why does an infinite universe imply that everything that can happen will happen? Why can’t an infinite universe be boring and uneventful?
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Okay, an infinite universe doesn’t necessarily imply that everything can happen (it could be infinite in size but finite in mass and energy)
Now, let’s look at something truly infinite in its own dimension: Pi decimals. Pi goes on and on and on and on. That means that at some point in Pi there’s the number 12345678901234567890, and we are absolutely certain about that, because Pi is infinite and irrational (which means that it is random). That also means that at some point in Pi there’s something like one quintillion 7s one after another. That also means that, if we take digits in pairs and substitute them with letters (like 00=A, 01=B, 02=C…) at some point we will find all the books that have ever been written along with the whole biography of every person in the world and the movements of each atom in the entirety of time (after an unsurmountable amount of noise and nonsense ofc, it kinda works like the milion monkeys with typewriters thing)
To sum up: With an infinite number of possibilities (as long as they aren’t periodical) any outcome will happen at some point
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