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rscky1@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.

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They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.

rscky1@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    No, there are some infinities bigger than other infinities. I know it sounds dumb, but this has been mathematically demonstrated. All infinities aren’t the same size, basically.

    The set of rational numbers is larger than the set of integer numbers, even though they are both infinite.

    What the person you replied is trying to say is that the intinite amount of universes that exist is infinitely larger that the infinite amount of universes in which you exist.

    Personally, I think we can’t mathematically understand if the multiverse is a countable or uncountable infinite… Maybe we can? I don’t know.

    https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/12823/is-the-number-of-universes-finite-countably-infinite-or-uncountably-infinite-a

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