On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:48:58 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:44:25 AM UTC, stathisp wrote: >> >> >> >> On 27 November 2017 at 16:25, <[email protected]> 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 >
If there are uncountable possibilities for different universes, why should there be any repetitions? I don't think infinite repetitions has been proven, and I don't believe it. 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.
