On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote
*>* *it's an odd quirk of evolution that emotionally most bipedal hominids > are not frightened by infinity,unless they think about it too deeply, but > very large finite numbers are instantly and viscerally scary.* > *> I'd have to see some survey results before I believed that.* *I don't have a survey I can cite to back up my claim, to my knowledge such a study has never been made. However I know that some people, even some very distinguished physicists, have no problem at all with an infinite universe, but react with the utmost horror at the thought that string theory, and its 10^500 different landscapes, might actually be real. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* x44 > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0wn%3DKjUq6koqGO7e72GYNyzJGaoCjqVVjZqTvA1dDQtA%40mail.gmail.com.
