On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 7:27 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. >> > > *> The trouble with all such arguments is that they miss the fact that our > initial conditions might have been very special, of measure zero.* > I assume you mean the overall spacetime curvature of the universe should be zero, but if Inflation Theory is correct it would explain why it is if not zero at least very very small, small enough that even if it's not infinite the entire universe would be large enough to be able to travel 10^102 light years and find a exact copy of our observable universe. John K Clark -- 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/CAJPayv0dnap6GfcsvT-fidz4_pVRCXYefmjgT1V2RGzsO39Z8g%40mail.gmail.com.
