> On 23 Sep 2019, at 05:24, Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 7:39:50 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 8:15 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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 […] 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 > > Unless Guth can plausbily argue why eternal inflation must occur, the claim > goes far behind mere speculation since it's already beyond our ability to > observe. AG
Whatever is observable is dream-able, and so “observation” is not a good criterion for deciding the ontology. That is the older anti-physicalist argument, already in Plato, and well before. 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/afd58cc9-717f-4696-8223-9979e4db7872%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/afd58cc9-717f-4696-8223-9979e4db7872%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/C0AC0CF4-EBE6-487D-9724-F5DFEE253F39%40ulb.ac.be.
