On Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 3:07:50 PM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
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>* The Rydberg series in the H-atom refers to an infinite set of states, but their energy content has an upper limit, so I don't see that your comment as relevant. AG 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/3f6c8a2f-4ebe-40e3-92fe-42a29da97aabn%40googlegroups.com.
