On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 11:13:37 PM UTC-6, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 07:42:18PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 7:20:57 PM UTC-6, Russell Standish > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 08:25:06PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > > > Whether they're boring or not is irrelevant. As I previously > posted, an > > > uncountable infinity of universes is possible without any repeats. > AG > > > > > > > Incorrect. Each world has a finite amount of information that > defines > > it, and consequently nonzero measure. If these worlds are drawn from > > an uncountable infinite set, then there must be an uncountable > number > > of copies of each world. > > > > > > This argument breaks down if worlds are infinite. To prove any of this, > > we need to do some real mathematics. So far I see it as conjectural. AG > > > > I just don't see how it could be possible for a world to contain an > infinite amount of information. But as people have noted here, the > word "world" is ambiguous. > > By "world" I first mean our universe, our bubble, including the unobservable region, and which cosmologists are in general agreement that it's infinite in spatial extent.; hence infinite information. Personally, I think it's finite, a huge hypersphere which is measured almost flat due its size. AG
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