hey, where is your critical thinking skills at. when reaching the 3x3 point the lighter or heavier is where that is determined because when 6x6 eliminated 6 marbles having same weight. so when put into 3x3, 3 will be same weight as the first 6 and last three have the lighter or heavier.
Murphy's law, when odds are 50/50 there is a 90% chance of picking the wrong side. Back to the op is a simple intellectual diversion of living only limited to being alive now.
time is stationary, evolving is perpetual motion changing total sum forward now as being here. one is part of remaining eternally separated in current shape and form, evolving as displaced equally timed apart here.
space is distance between evolving results. time is they exist in series parallel displacement inorganically universally here galactically, solar system, planetary, genetically plant, animal, predator, prey, male, female, asexual replacement between inception of ancestral lineage to extinction of ancestral chain of events so far.
Adapt or become extinct. Everything navigates time only evolving now in the cycle of their displacement currently occupying the moment here regardless universal geographical area residing.