On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 6:20:47 PM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote:
That's basically the argument of Max Tegmark, and it means infinite copies of everything. AG I don't think the quantization of gravity is a necessary condition for Max's model of an infinite universe to be realized. Anyway that's a long long way off, if ever. AG On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 5:53:33 PM UTC-7 Liz R wrote: 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 <agrays...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/605d74d4-9ece-418c-80d5-c22e17548bddn%40googlegroups.com.
