On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 5, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> If >> >> the universe is infinite and not just huge then a finite >> d >> istance away there *IS* a >> person identical to our >> B >> ruce Kellet >> in every way EXCEPT he's named John Clark not >> Bruce Kellet >> >> In fact there are a infinite number of them. > > > > Prove it! And I mean *prove*, not just wave your hands a bit. > I f the Universe is infinite and if it is "normal" then i t has to be true. A number is called " norm a l " if it is a infinite irrational number and the average number of times a di gits in base b occurs gets closer and closer to 1/b as larger portions of the sequence are examined. In other words it's normal if in the decimal expansion of the number one digit is not more common than another. If a number is normal then any finite sequence of number s you can name exists a finite distance to the right of the decimal point. We know that almost all real numbers are normal but only a very few particular numbers have been proven to be so; one that has been proven to be normal is Champernowne 's constant : 0.12345678910111213141516 1718 192021... At some finite distance to the right of the decimal point is your telephone number and your social security and your credit card number, and if every 2 digits encodes a letter or a punctuation mark in the English language then at some finite distance to the right of that decimal point all 7 Harry Potter novels are encoded back to back. But is the matter in the universe distributed normally? My intuition says yes but I can't prove it. > > PS. If the copy is named 'Bruce Kellet', then it is not me, because that > is not my name! > Agreed, close but no cigar. So there are a infinite number of things that are Bruce Kellet and there are a infinite number of things that are *almost* Bruce Kellet . John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
