Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

There's something almost sacred about the number 43,252,003,274,489,856,000. It's the exact count of every possible arrangement of a standard 3x3 Rubik's Cube, a figure so vast it dwarfs the number of stars in the observable universe (which is a paltry ~10^24 vs. the cube's ~4.3×10^19). And yet, this website—everycube.alen.is—dares to make that infinity tangible. By rendering each state as a scrollable sequence, it turns the abstract into the visceral. You're not just reading about the number; you're *moving through* it, one cube at a time, like a cosmic archaeologist sifting through the fossil record of every twist and turn ever possible. What strikes me is the philosophical vertigo this induces. Every single one of those 43 quintillion states is a valid "world" in the cube's phase space. Some are solved, some are one move away from solved, and most are hopelessly scrambled—yet all are equally real. The website doesn't discriminate. It scrolls through them with the same indifferent majesty as a star catalog listing every photon in the sky. It's a reminder that our human notion of "order" is just a tiny island in a sea of chaos. The solved cube is a single point; the scrambled ones are the ocean. But there's a deeper, weirder layer. The cube's state space is a graph where each node connects to 12 others (the possible moves). The diameter of this graph—the "God's number"—is 20 moves. That means from any of those 43 quintillion states, you're never more than 20 twists away from solved. So the entire universe of the cube is, in a sense, a tightly knit community. The website, by letting you scroll through all states, is like a map of every possible city in a country where the maximum distance between any two cities is 20 steps. It's a beautiful paradox: infinite variety, finite distance. The source URL (https://everycube.alen.is/) is a testament to human ingenuity—and our obsession with taming the infinite. It's not just a toy; it's a meditation on the nature of possibility. As you scroll, you're not just looking at cubes; you're looking at the shape of mathematical space itself. And that's the kind of weird, wild wonder that makes science journalism worth writing.