There's another basis for claiming that everything that's possible must happen - this would be the case if the universe is both quantised and infinite.
On Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 02:10:54 UTC+13 John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> the basis for claiming that everything that's possible to happen, must >> happen, is a question you've never answered* > > > *You've asked that question many times and I've answered it many times, > and my answer is always the same; the claim is derived from the one and > only assumption that Many Worlds makes, Schrodinger's Equation means what > it says. So far nobody has ever performed an experiment that disproves > that assumption, if anybody ever does then Many Worlds is dead wrong.* > > *>Whichever turn you take, there exists an uncountable set of paths, >> corresponding to the set of possible curves* > > > *Maybe. Maybe not. There is no doubt that mathematically the set of all > possible curves is uncountably infinite, but we're talking about physics > not mathematics, so the answer is not clear at all. There might be an > uncountably infinite number of paths, there might be a countably infinite > number of paths, there might only be an astronomical number to an > astronomical power FINITE number of paths; it all depends on if time > and/or space is continuous or discrete. Schrodinger's Equation is an > agnostic on that question, and so is Many Worlds.* > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > 1fz > > > -- 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/8da63819-146e-4e7b-9324-aa39e9aedb98n%40googlegroups.com.
