Re: consequences of infinities
Dawn Flood <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.atheism,alt.checkmate |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/7/2026 9:36 AM, jojo wrote: > Dawn Flood wrote: >> On 8/6/2026 10:07 AM, jojo wrote: >>> if there are infinite universii, then there exists not just one >>> universe in which you are the most important human and the main >>> character on earth, but infinitely many. >>> >>> that is what infinite does, it makes everything meaningless. >>> >>> but i certainly want to be a very important human, very important. >>> >> >> Jojo, My Dear, you are SO special!! >> >> As for your comprehension of an infinite universe, well, "no". Let's >> start here: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality_of_the_continuum >> >> It's a technical article, to be sure, but, here's the take-home message: >> >> The set of real numbers is infinite, but all real numbers are, without >> exception (we're going to ignore the hyperreals for now), finite. >> >> And, so, our Universe could be infinite in both space or time (or, >> both), but that does not mean that there are "infinitely many" >> characters or of "you"! >> >> And, so, you're special!! And, your life is absolutely & utterly >> priceless, and so, live every single moment that you can to the utter >> & complete fullest!! >> >> Dawn >> >> > > i mean if the universe is infinite then these big bangs could also > happen within them infinitely? there is also that inflation thing with > many bubble universes. > > my problem is that it seems the words magic and infinite are > interchangeable. nothing can infinitely exist. > > everyone is very special, special needs everyone has. > What's the alternative to an infinite Universe? (Answer: one that is finite in space and/or in time.) Even if our Universe is infinite does not at all imply "bubble Universes," the various multiverses, or whatever.