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UNKNOWN as of 2026-07-31. The source reports that line lengths through 1000 fail to weakly vanish and gives glider-based heuristics for large lengths. The answer does not prove persistence for every n or exhibit a weakly vanishing n. Exhibit an integer n>=25 and prove that each fixed cell is eventually permanently dead, or prove that every n>=25 leaves some fixed cell alive at arbitrarily large times.

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Originating problem: Weak vanishing of a horizontal line in Conway's Life

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UNKNOWN as of 2026-07-31. The source reports that line lengths through 1000 fail to weakly vanish and gives glider-based heuristics for large lengths. The answer does not prove persistence for every n or exhibit a weakly vanishing n.

A complete resolution must satisfy this condition: Exhibit an integer n>=25 and prove that each fixed cell is eventually permanently dead, or prove that every n>=25 leaves some fixed cell alive at arbitrarily large times.

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Verification source: mathoverflow.net ↗, See dataset.references[0] for the exact external source and locator.

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