[nox101]

I'm with you. There are forces that would prevent random particles from being in any configuration "at random".

Example: At random, 2x2x2cm ice cube in center of sun sized star. You can't get from here to their because an ice cube will never form next to heat.

In some alternate reality where atoms materialize in random configurations out of nothing maybe, but that's not our reality where atoms interact with other atoms and that interaction prevents the vast majority of combinations. It doesn't matter if time is infinite.

[wanderingstan]

> In some alternate reality where atoms materialize in random configurations out of nothing maybe

Quantum mechanics says that this reality. Look into virtual particles.