> On 23 Sep 2019, at 05:20, Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 5:43:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > On 9/22/2019 8:39 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > This is a consequence also of eternal inflation, and Guth used almost > > identical language saying everything that can happen happens an > > infinite number of times. > > > The problem is to figure out what CAN happen. There tends to be a > casual assumption that it's anything that can be imagined or anything > that is not a logical contradiction. The former is vague (can you > imagine that Puerto Rico exists?). The second can't be applied because > the world is not a set of propositions. "Everything" is ill defined. > Quantum mechanics is often cited as proving that everything happens, but > this is a misunderstanding. QM also predicts that some things have zero > probability...that's why there are dark bands in a Young's slits experiment. > > Brent > > Tegmark claimed that everything that's mathematically possible, must occur. > Since the dark bands are NOT mathematically possible,
? The dark bands are mathematically possible, and even mathematically necessary when arithmetic is seen “from inside”. > Tegmark's general > claim cannot apply. So we must address ourselves to what IS mathematically > possible, which could include flying pigs with properly modified DNA. Yes, in dreams, but perhaps rare in physics, which is not dreams, but a sum on all (relative) dreams. > I don't > subscribe to the claim of many or infinite copies of anything. I've never seen > a proof of that; only assertions. And Jason mistakes the claim if it comes > from > Tegmark. He did NOT claim that anything CONCEIVABLE must occur. AG “Conceivable” is a fuzzy term. Flying pigs are conceivable, dream-able, but square circles are not, like 2+2=5 in arithmetic. (As opposed to other mathematical structure where numbers have another interpretation). Bruno > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c8315daf-c474-4601-9969-0f7724e65ffb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c8315daf-c474-4601-9969-0f7724e65ffb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/47656D73-EE26-4474-8519-BDC8225539E1%40ulb.ac.be.
