On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 at 08:08, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:26 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> *> Carroll also believes that IF the universe is infinite, then there >> must exist exact copies of universes and ourselves. This is frequently >> claimed by the MWI true believers, but never, AFAICT, proven, or even >> plausibly argued. What's the argument for such a claim?* >> > > Of course it's been proven! It's simple math, there are only a finite > number of ways the atoms in your body, or even the entire OBSERVABLE > universe, can be arranged so obviously if the entire universe is infinite > then there is going to have to be copies, an infinite number of them in > fact. Max Tegmark has even calculated how far you'd have to go to see > such a thing. > > Your closest identical copy is 10^12 light years away. About 10^76 light > years away there is a sphere of radius 100 light-years identical to the one > centered here, so everything we see here during the next century will be > identical to those of our counterparts over there. And 10^102 light years > away the is a exact copy of our entire observable universe. And all this is > true regardless of if the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics > is correct or not, it only depends on the universe being spatially infinite. > Assuming that the structure of the universe is uniform. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypWkOFA2AWcD2gTx%3DsEUuF_j1yhei7VaZNj0i9YQJGv2JA%40mail.gmail.com.
