The thought experiment / existential question of the eternal return holds regardless, but as an aside, Nietzsche was influenced by scientific ideas at the time that suggested the possibility of a literal eternal return, something like a hard reset of the universe at some point in the distant future, leading to a literal re-living of our lives, over and over again.
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The thought experiment / existential question of the eternal return holds regardless, but as an aside, Nietzsche was influenced by scientific ideas at the time that suggested the possibility of a literal eternal return, something like a hard reset of the universe at some point in the distant future, leading to a literal re-living of our lives, over and over again.