Re: many (identical) universes

From: Fred Chen <flipsu5.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:58:59 -0800

Saj Malhi wrote:

> 1. You do not need an infinite program to create an infinite string.

I should have used "non-terminating" (to output an infinitely long string)
rather than imply an infinitely long program. The program can be fairly simple,
e.g., involving a loop.

> 2. The infinity of even numbers is as large as the infinity of all real
> numbers. Only different classes / types of infinity have been shown to be of
> different size.
>

Hmmm...I would have thought the set of even numbers is much smaller than the set
of reals, because between any two even numbers, you have infinitely more reals.

Fred

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Chen <flipsu5.domain.name.hidden>
> To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: 13 February 2000 06:44
> Subject: many (identical) universes
>
> > To my knowledge, there is nothing prohibiting the existence of an
> > infinite number of copies of identical universes. The likelihood of
> > being in one set of identical universes or another should still
> > correspond to the ratios determined by the probabilities. Since there
> > are an infinite number of universes involved each universe should be
> > "marked" by an infinitely long string of mostly don't care bits that
> > would serve as an "ID" or tag. This implies an infinite program is
> > necessary from a computational standpoint. Does anybody have any
> > problems with this?
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
Received on Sun Feb 13 2000 - 13:05:47 PST