> On 23 Sep 2019, at 05:20, Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 5:43:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > On 9/22/2019 8:39 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > 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. > > > The problem is to figure out what CAN happen. There tends to be a > casual assumption that it's anything that can be imagined or anything > that is not a logical contradiction. The former is vague (can you > imagine that Puerto Rico exists?). The second can't be applied because > the world is not a set of propositions. "Everything" is ill defined. > Quantum mechanics is often cited as proving that everything happens, but > this is a misunderstanding. QM also predicts that some things have zero > probability...that's why there are dark bands in a Young's slits experiment. > > Brent > > Tegmark claimed that everything that's mathematically possible, must occur. > Since the dark bands are NOT mathematically possible,
? The dark bands are mathematically possible, and even mathematically necessary when arithmetic is seen “from inside”. > Tegmark's general > claim cannot apply. So we must address ourselves to what IS mathematically > possible, which could include flying pigs with properly modified DNA. Yes, in dreams, but perhaps rare in physics, which is not dreams, but a sum on all (relative) dreams. > I don't > subscribe to the claim of many or infinite copies of anything. I've never seen > a proof of that; only assertions. And Jason mistakes the claim if it comes > from > Tegmark. He did NOT claim that anything CONCEIVABLE must occur. AG “Conceivable” is a fuzzy term. Flying pigs are conceivable, dream-able, but square circles are not, like 2+2=5 in arithmetic. (As opposed to other mathematical structure where numbers have another interpretation). Bruno > > > -- > 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/c8315daf-c474-4601-9969-0f7724e65ffb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c8315daf-c474-4601-9969-0f7724e65ffb%40googlegroups.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/47656D73-EE26-4474-8519-BDC8225539E1%40ulb.ac.be.
