On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:44:25 AM UTC, stathisp wrote: > > > > On 27 November 2017 at 16:25, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:07:03 AM UTC, stathisp wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 26 November 2017 at 13:33, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You keep ignoring the obvious 800 pound gorilla in the room; introducing >>>> Many Worlds creates hugely more complications than it purports to do away >>>> with; multiple, indeed infinite observers with the same memories and life >>>> histories for example. Give me a break. AG >>>> >>> >>> What about a single, infinite world in which everything is duplicated to >>> an arbitrary level of detail, including the Earth and its inhabitants, an >>> infinite number of times? Is the bizarreness of this idea an argument for a >>> finite world, ending perhaps at the limit of what we can see? >>> >>> >>> --stathis Papaioannou >>> >> >> FWIW, in my view we live in huge, but finite, expanding hypersphere, >> meaning in any direction, if go far enough, you return to your starting >> position. Many cosmologists say it's flat and thus infinite; not >> asymptotically flat and therefore spatially finite. Measurements cannot >> distinguish the two possibilities. I don't buy the former since they also >> concede it is finite in age. A Multiverse might exist, and that would >> likely be infinite in space and time, with erupting BB universes, some like >> ours, most definitely not. Like I said, FWIW. AG >> > > OK, but is the *strangeness* of a multiverse with multiple copies of > everything *in itself* an argument against it? > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou >
FWIW, I don't buy the claim that an infinite multiverse implies infinite copies of everything. Has anyone proved that? 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.
