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This sounds like one of those ideas that's mathematically very pure but sort of nonsensical otherwise. Basically there are an ~infinite number of universes bein
by staticassertion 5y ago
This sounds like one of those ideas that's mathematically very pure but sort of nonsensical otherwise. Basically there are an ~infinite number of universes being created every 1 'units of time' where that unit is ~0.
IDK, I guess the whole speed of light thing is really silly too in a way, but that's provably true.
This just feels really nuts. I guess it's like... where do all of these universes live? I get that our universe expands into whatever, but that seems trivial compared to a theory where every single quantum action leads to a new universe.
- criddell 5y ago> where do all of these universes live? If you think Max Tegmark is right, then the universe is just mathematics and space itself is a mathematical structure. Is there a limit on how many mathematical structures can exist?
- staticassertion 5y agoWell that's my exact point. If everything boils down to math, it's all well and good. But I don't think that's the case.
- zogomoox 5y agoSean Carrol addressed this in his royal institution lecture (a brief history of quantum mechanics, 37m30s). As far as I understood those universes aren't created, you're just selecting a slice of phase space of the (very big) number of possible universes. ( link: https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU?t=2247 https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU?t=2247 )