• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    if there are an infinite amount of multiverses, logically, there must be many in which you do not exist.

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      10 months ago

      Not necessarily. You could be the one constant throughout them all for whatever reason and it wouldn’t put any damper on there being an infinite number of universes. That’s the whole point of OPs example; infinity can still be bound by limits.

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        10 months ago

        That’s the whole point of OPs example; infinity can still be bound by limits.

        such as there being no constants? can that not be a limit?

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          10 months ago

          We can’t really know what’s possible I suppose, it’s more that there’s sort of different “levels” of infinity where one level can contain another within itself, but both are still infinite just the same. When people imagine infinity they picture everything, but it doesn’t need to be.

          Hilbert’s hotel is a good example that illustrates how infinities are weird.