On 27 November 2017 at 16:54, <agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
wrote:
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:48:58 AM UTC,
agrays...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:44:25 AM UTC, stathisp
wrote:
On 27 November 2017 at 16:25, <agrays...@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
FWIW, I don't buy the claim that an infinite multiverse
implies infinite copies of everything. Has anyone proved
that? AG
If there are uncountable possibilities for different
universes, why should there be any repetitions? I don't think
infinite repetitions has been proven, and I don't believe it. AG
If a finite subset of the universe has only a finite number of
configurations and the Cosmological Principle is correct, then
every finite subset should repeat. It might not; for example,
from a radius of 10^100 m out it might be just be vacuum forever,
or Donald Trump dolls.
