Well said, but I do love the multiverse (at times) for its entertainment values. I also wonder as a few astronomers and physicists have postulated an infinite or much larger cosmos? In other words, what might lie for hundreds of billions or trillions of light years, beyond the Hubble Volume? Axions, virtual photons, a vast oceans of neutrinos, old deposed black holes, dimensions? One of the answers the Multiverse provides is simply what maps provided ancient cartographers, "Here be dragons." Spud, Cartographically speaking...
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> To: Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 5:15 pm Subject: Re: Are there 10^272,000 Universes? I think it is best to think of these as calculational gadgets. To be honest I am not sure about the ontological status of these 10^{272,000} spacetimes or cosmogonies. LC On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:58:37 PM UTC-5 spudb...@aol.com wrote: Weepers. I am behind the times. Last I remember it was 10^500 universes as informed by Guth, Linde, Vilenkin, and the rest. F theory must me when ya hear 10^272K universes, ya yell out F#@CK!!!. Anyone willing to wager if some of have better shows than Netflix? -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <goldenfield...@gmail.com> To: Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 11:24 am Subject: Re: Are there 10^272,000 Universes? This is F-theory I presume. LC On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:09:58 AM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: Are there 10^272,000 Universes? - Numberphile John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis rtu -- 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-li...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/07cc79c3-0195-4741-9fc7-930dc9bdb497n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/2ccbc278-4296-4cb5-acb5-cfc92135f2f0n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/603393116.302472.1657650535754%40mail.yahoo.com.