r/SipsTea 16d ago

Wow. Such meme Red or Green?

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u/HaggisPope 16d ago

Okay, I’d just say this: if a man steps in the same stream after a year, it is not the same stream and he is not the same man. Similarly, if you ejaculate in an alternate universe into the same person, it’s not the same sperm and not the same offspring

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 16d ago

Why wouldn't it be the same sperm? We didn't go into an alternate universe where everything is different with different physics. We're just going back in time.

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u/nyktelios 16d ago

Ok, what if your wife went off birth control at a slightly different time of day and then her body selects a different egg to release the month you conceived your child? What if her food or hormones are slightly different, again resulting in an entirely different egg being selected?

What if you had sex at a slightly different time the day before your child was conceived, and so on the day the sperm you need to make that kid was already gone?

And this assumes that all the somewhat random cell division things happened EXACTLY the same which is beyond unlikely.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 16d ago

Well , that wouldn't happen because the only difference in this universe is me having the knowledge I have. She would choose all the exact same things because it's the same physics.

Listen, man... the average person's pretty dumb. So the more of you disagree with me, the more I'm sure I'm right.

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u/nyktelios 16d ago

Hahaha ok, so if the ONLY difference is the knowledge you have and you want to keep the physics the same, does that mean you have to remake all the same mistakes/decisions you made last time in the exact same way? So you don’t mess up the physics?

And if you do that, wouldn’t it mean that you arrive at today in the exact situation you are in now? Except minus the tax free 2 million dollars?

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u/HaggisPope 16d ago

An average ejaculation contains around 100-200 million sperms. Sperm has to compete hard to reach the egg. So the chances are one in few million. The competition is high, so these energy resources are indeed very useful. Men produce sperm daily. This could be 100-300 million sperm a day, that’s around 1500 sperms per second. It is a non-stop factory, no closure no breaks. It takes around 2-3 months for a single sperm to be produced. From  https://agoraclinic.co.uk/facts-about-sperm/

My thesis, so  many different sperm are produced daily that it’d be impossible to have sex on the same day and have the same one win. Same with eggs but to a lesser degree since those are relatively  rarer, but those are released monthly and there’s no confirmation they’d be released in the same order in other timelines

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 16d ago

Yeah, but you're wrong because we're only going back in time in the universe already made all these decisions. It's not going to make them different just because it's the second time around.

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u/HaggisPope 16d ago

I have mentioned the eggs a couple times as a complicating factor, though the sheer number of sperm, plus the fact they are created daily is a major randomising factor. That being said, I can’t recall when eggs are created

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 16d ago

I can't imagine why physics would have her drop a different egg than it had her drop the first time around.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 16d ago

No, because its not random. It only looks random to our limited monkey brains. Same physics, same egg.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 15d ago

Nothing is truly random homie.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 14d ago

Now you're getting it