On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> As I've said many times before, I don't demand that and neither > does Many Worlds, there might be an infinite number or there might only be > an astronomical number to an astronomical power of them, Many Worlds is > agnostic on that issue and so am I. * > > > *> IMO, the MWI does assume an infinite number of worlds, though that > infinity might be only countable. You can easily infer that from the > countably many energy states of the H atom. AG * > *Maybe, maybe not. The energy states of a hydrogen atom are determined by the electromagnetic force, so can it really have an infinite number of energy states? Nobody knows because when a photon gains more energy its wavelength decreases, eventually its wavelength will be the Planck Length, about 10^-20 times smaller than the diameter of a proton, and then you will have so much mass/energy concentrated into such a small space that a tiny black hole is formed, or at least that's what our current ideas say, but there is no experimental confirmation of it so would be wise to be a bit skeptical. And if the photon has more energy than that your guess is as good as mine about what will happen. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* q4x -- 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/CAJPayv0x%3Dy08BqFsepVeJpb74NKmO8CHv6CbAzqrm7PqUAvqvA%40mail.gmail.com.
