On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
*>> some people, even some very distinguished physicists, have no problem >> at all with an infinite universe, but react with the utmost horror at the >> thought that string theory, and its 10^500 different landscapes, might >> actually be real. * > > > > *> Is "utmost" that level of horror you express when contemplating > superdeterminism?* > *No because when it comes to superdeterminism infinity probably comes into play, not tiny finite numbers such as 10^500. * *I like this quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy when Arthur is shown the factory floor where custom made planets are constructed: * *"The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very big, so that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself."* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* fa8 -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv306EJL3zRo4u8rqJmZ_fs6jzZC773nKezpG84Y54wbwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
