On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 4:22:08 PM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:24 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote > > > > >> You're conflating Multiverse with the MWI. >> > > > You can't have the MWI without the Multiverse, and if there is a > Multiverse then the MWI explains a lot. > > There are about 10^80 atoms in the observable universe and obviously there > is a finite number of ways 10^80 atoms can be arranged in a sphere with a > radius of 13.8 billion light years; so if the > entire > universe (not to be confused with the observable universe) is infinite > then at a very large but still finite distance things must repeat and there > is a universe identical to our own, and at another hyper large distance > there is a universe identical to ours except that the freckle on my right > thumb is on my left thumb instead. And at a even greater distance one > second after a John Clark hits send on a message identical to this one all > the air molecules in the room he is in go to the other side of the room due > to random thermal vibrations and that John Clark suffocates. Bizarre events > like that are not impossible just very very unlikely, but if the universe > is really infinite then everything that doesn't violate the laws of physics > will happen, and the Many World people say that's what the wave function is > trying to tell us, everything that can happen will happen. >
The concept of Multiverse and Many Worlds come from entirely different contexts and theories, so the idea that they are somehow connected or related strikes me a patently false. Moreover, the idea that if the universe is infinite (in some parameter; spatial extent, age, whatever), then anything that can happen, will happen, is IMO unproven and almost certainly false. For example, we know that irrational numbers exist, but in an infinite string of digits representing some irrational number, there are no repetitions of any subset strings. But there should be according to your conjecture. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
