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I have watched it, and it was actually talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...

Ironically Banach-Tarski would have been better suited for a movie about infinity. Poincare recurrence is relevant for amounts of time that are merely exponentially large, not infinite.

I agree with Wadge that the movie was not very good, but I'm not actually sure what his objection is to the bit with the orange in a box, it seems fairly reasonable based on our current understanding of physics.




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