On 1 April 2014 13:56, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 3/31/2014 6:41 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
>      Are you saying that the fact that we don't see many worlds is
>> evidence against many worlds?
>>
>>
>>  No, the fact that whatever our instrument reads our *theory* says there
>> are infinitely many other readings.
>>
>
>  Is that just a psychological problem or do you think it implies the
> theory is wrong? If the theory were right, what should we expect to see?
>
>
>
> No, I think it implies the theory is incomplete.  It needs to explain why
> our instrument readings seem to obey the laws of probability.
>

Yes, it has been said many times that there is a problem with probability
in an infinite universe but I assume this is not enough to conclude that an
infinite universe is impossible a priori, so what *should* we observe in a
such a universe?


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Stathis Papaioannou

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