On Monday, January 13, 2020 at 5:10:07 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:18 AM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> My hunch, and that's all it is, is that "the substratum" from which the >> BB emerged, is infinitely old, and the concept of spatial extent probably >> doesn't apply to it. There could be many BB's, possibly an infinite number, >> but all finite in spatial extent if they had beginnings. AG* > > > If, as this one does, all the Big Bang's have a finite number of particles > and are all of finite spatial extent then there is only a finite number of > ways those particles can be arranged. But if there are a infinite number > of those Big Bang's then in one of them (actually in a infinite number of > them) there must be an arrangement of particles that are identical to you > in every way except he spells his last name "Greyson" not "Grayson". So I > guess both Mr. Greyson and Mr. Grayson have changed their minds and now > believe in the existence of the Multiverse. > > John K Clark >
*I think you're making the assumption that the possible arrangement of a finite set of particles of finite extent corresponds to a countable set. But if space is continuous, that assumption fails, and with it your entire thesis. There is only ONE Grayson, thankfully. AG* -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/57eb9040-6a70-4d42-b3db-51cefd16c24c%40googlegroups.com.
