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symmetricsaurus | 9 months ago

Well actually, air molecules (N2, O2) are indistinguishable. This means that they are fundamentally interchangeable with each other and it’s not well defined what ”same” molecules mean. You can’t label the individual molecules.

It’s of course possible to track a single molecule if you really try hard. But this hasn’t been done since Caesar's time and the molecules have mixed. Even if we knew the exact state of the universe right now and could play back time perfectly it would be impossible to say that some particular molecules were part of his last breath.

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