> On 23 Sep 2019, at 03:39, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 8:15 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > On 9/22/2019 3:46 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > every conceivable pattern that is possible can happen and would happen > > No. That is NOT the theory. The theory is that everything > nomologically consistent with the initial conditions may happen. > "Conceviable" is having a flat Earth and flying pigs. > > > I qualified it with "that is possible", I grant that "conceivable" becomes > superfluous with the "possible" constraint. Anyway, here is what Guth writes: > > “This process will repeat itself literally forever, producing a kind of a > fractal structure to the universe, resulting in an infinite number of the > local universes […]
Guth converges toward a universal physical dovetailing, and that is possible, and very plausible with Mechanism, almost proved, I would say, except for the devils in the details. Of course that infinite repetition is guarantied in the arithmetical reality. Bruno > Of course this fractal structure is entirely on distance scales much too > large to be observed, so we cannot expect astronomers to see it. Nonetheless, > one does have to think about the fractal structure if one wants to understand > the very large scale structure of the spacetime produced by inflation. Most > important of all is the simple statement that once inflation happens, it > produces not just one universe, but an infinite number of universes.” He > concludes, “In an eternally inflating universe, anything that can happen will > happen; in fact, it will happen an infinite number of times.” > > -- Alan Gutth, "Eternal inflation and its implications" ( > https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0702178.pdf > <https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0702178.pdf> ) > > Jason > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUjH2FDqi3PQN%2Bh6TUTD1CgN94_0iCQe-A%3D%2BCpFSvueXYA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUjH2FDqi3PQN%2Bh6TUTD1CgN94_0iCQe-A%3D%2BCpFSvueXYA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/A5A25FB0-1E54-480A-B181-9B26C7AD7500%40ulb.ac.be.
