On 27 November 2017 at 16:25, <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:07:03 AM UTC, stathisp wrote: >> >> >> >> On 26 November 2017 at 13:33, <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You keep ignoring the obvious 800 pound gorilla in the room; introducing >>> Many Worlds creates hugely more complications than it purports to do away >>> with; multiple, indeed infinite observers with the same memories and life >>> histories for example. Give me a break. AG >>> >> >> What about a single, infinite world in which everything is duplicated to >> an arbitrary level of detail, including the Earth and its inhabitants, an >> infinite number of times? Is the bizarreness of this idea an argument for a >> finite world, ending perhaps at the limit of what we can see? >> >> >> --stathis Papaioannou >> > > FWIW, in my view we live in huge, but finite, expanding hypersphere, > meaning in any direction, if go far enough, you return to your starting > position. Many cosmologists say it's flat and thus infinite; not > asymptotically flat and therefore spatially finite. Measurements cannot > distinguish the two possibilities. I don't buy the former since they also > concede it is finite in age. A Multiverse might exist, and that would > likely be infinite in space and time, with erupting BB universes, some like > ours, most definitely not. Like I said, FWIW. AG >
OK, but is the *strangeness* of a multiverse with multiple copies of everything *in itself* an argument against it? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
