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We talk about TREE(3) Chapter 1: The Universe Will Reset Did you know that if you wait long enough, the universe will randomly reassemble itself into exactly this moment? It's called the PoincarĂ© recurrence time: roughly 10^10^10^120 years. That's 10 to the power of (10 to the power of 10 billion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion...) After this time, every atom will randomly bounce back into the exact same position.  You'll be reading this again. With the same memories. Same thoughts. Same everything. And it'll happen again. And again. Forever. Welcome to eternal recurrence. đŸ”„♾️ - Chapter 2: The Most Insane Number Ever Used in Math Forget infinity. Let me introduce you to TREE(3). TREE(1) = 1 TREE(2) = 3 TREE(3) = ... incomprehensibly, obscenely super hyper ultra  massive How big? It makes the number of atoms in the universe (10^80) look like a joke. It makes Graham's Number look like pocket change. I...