On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:26 AM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > The trouble with all such arguments is that they miss the fact that our initial conditions might have been very special, of measure zero. In an infinite universe there are certainly many copies of individual universes, but they might well all be copies of completely boring lifeless universes. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLSMZoPx5Dc%3DLFQDnow0QCcHDbJ-agmxo%2Bhec20WXRaCzA%40mail.gmail.com.
