On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:39 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:34 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:46 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, September 19, 2019, Alan Grayson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> What I have shown is that it's hypothetically possible to have >>>> countable universes wherein there are no repeats, no exact copies. AG >>>> >>> >>> It might be imaginable but there being no duplicates of any finite >>> spaces within an infinite space violates the Bekenstein bound and >>> holographic principle. >>> >> >> That is simply false. The duplicates could contain no information. The >> Bekenstein bound applies to black holes, suggesting that if the infinite >> space has a finite matter density, it will close to form a BH. The >> holographic principle is a conjecture based on disfavoured string theory. >> > > Both places absolute finite limits on the information content of a finite > volume containing finite energy. Is this no longer a favored theory in > physics? > Holography is highly speculative. The Bekenstein bound does not apply to non-static universes, such as our expanding universe. > If a finite region does contain finite information, then in an infinite > (homogeneous) space, that same finite pattern will reappear infinitely. > You overlook the possibility that the infinite repeats are of uninteresting volumes, and that the initial conditions for some volumes may never repeat. > This is a consequence also of eternal inflation, and Guth used almost > identical language saying everything that can happen happens an infinite > number of times. > Guth was wrong about a lot of things. Eternal inflation is an unproven speculative idea. Not even inflation itself is entirely secure -- it is increasingly becoming to look like a solution in search of a problem. All of Guth's original motivations for inflation have come to very little. 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/CAFxXSLRUNLRRqEvE9SoiEYSJuKjU71MUNoe5KhpPqo-xpn9g3w%40mail.gmail.com.
