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What is the most complicated thing ever?

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Do you think a Rubik’s cube is the most complicated mechanical puzzle ever invented? You have no idea how complicated mechanical puzzles can be. A Standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube can have  43,252,003,274,489,856,00 0  combinations, but only 1 solution. To put this into perspective, if we have one Rubik’s cube for each possible combination, then all the cubes will cover the whole surface of 275 earth-sized planets. and among all of them, only 1 cube will be in perfectly solved state. But for some people, this was not complicated enough. they created 4x4x4 cubes, and also 5x5x5 cubes. A 4x4x4 cube has  7401196841564901869874093 974498574336000000000  combinations. If you have that many teaspoons of sugar, it will fill a sphere the size of the solar system 3.5 times over. a 5x5x5 Rubik’s cube has  28287094227774185653618033107150328293127731985672134721536000000000000000  combinations, this is close to number of atoms in the known universe. and yet, people can solve it within fe