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How do you know the "lifetime of the universe" wont itself repeat, when the universe exhausts all uniq state?
Sure it could. That could be true if the universe's structure happens to be a bounded/finite one. Evidence for this is lacking, but it's not an impossibility - there is more evidence for the unbounded (but still locally finite) view.
Here's something for you, the subjective idealist to wonder about:
It may be that the notion of time and even the notion physical law is directly connected (I'm not going to use the term 'caused', because it's not that simple) to the nature of consciousness. For consciousness (or forming memories or having experiences), you require an arrow of time. For computation, you require an arrow of time. Without an arrow of time, the "universe" is just a static mathematical or computational structure. What about physical sturctures? You can only observe those that fit your particular inner mental/'physical' structure: you will never observe an universe where (the arrow of) time doesn't exist, as tht is required for your subjective time to exist, you will never observe an universe where various laws of entropy don't apply (although this can be relaxed greatly), and if computationalism is to be taken seriously, you will never observe an universe where some form of quantum indeterminism doesn't apply.