On Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 11:21:36 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > *> Moreover, MWI DOES make additional assumptions, as its name >> indicates, based on the assumption that all possible measurements MUST be >> measured, in this case in other worlds. I reject this hypothesis. What I do >> concede is that in the case of the Multiverse of String Theory, if time is >> infinite and the possible universes finite -- 10^500 -- all possible >> universes will be, or have been, realized. AG* >> > > > So what are we arguing about? 10^500 may not be infinite > but > > that is certainly many many worlds > , and > in our universe of only 10^80 atoms > its > not too far from the MWI idea that everything > that > > can happen does happen. >
Again you're conflating the Multiverse of String Theory with the Many Worlds of MWI. In the former case, we have 10^500 landscape solutions, so IF time is infinite it's plausible that all will be EVENTUALLY realized; not unlike a 500 sigma event for an electron impacting the screen in a double slit experiment. No humans involved; infinite time. OTOH, in the case of MWI, you claim that the HUMAN ACTION of shooting an electron at the slits in the same experiment AUTOMATICALLY, NECESSARILY, AND INSTANTANEOUSLY CREATES a possibly uncountable number of universes. Even for countable case, still ridiculous IMO. AG > -- 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.
