On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 6:20 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > If the Universe is truly infinite, if you travel outwards from Earth, > eventually you will reach a place where there's a duplicate cubic meter of > space. The further you go, the more duplicates you'll find. > > Ooh, big deal, you think. One hydrogen pile looks the same as the next to > me. Except, you hydromattecist, you'll pass through places where the > configuration of particles will begin to appear familiar, and if you > proceed long enough you'll find larger and larger identical regions of > space, and eventually you'll find an identical you. And finding a copy of > yourself is just the start of the bananas crazy things you can do in an > infinite Universe. > > In fact, hopefully you'll absorb the powers of an immortal version of you, > because if you keep going you'll find an infinite number of yous. You'll > eventually find entire duplicate observable universes with more yous also > collecting other yous. And at least one of them is going to have a beard. > > So, what's out there? Possibly an infinite number of duplicate observable > universes. We don't even need multiverses to find them. These are duplicate > universes inside of our own infinite universe. That's what you can get when > you can travel in one direction and never, ever stop. > > Whether the Universe is finite or infinite is an important question, and > either outcome is mindblenderingly fun. So far, astronomers have no idea > what the answer is, but they're working towards it and maybe someday > they'll be able to tell us. > Unjustifiable assumptions about initial distributions are being made here -- so it is yet another load of codswallop! Bruce > > https://phys.org/news/2015-03-universe-finite-infinite.html > > @philipthrift > -- 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/CAFxXSLQTYp%3D3S0jUOh_%2B_4F%2BLQrFtwi%2BUgG4yb_1Z2vRC2jPng%40mail.gmail.com.
