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> we have every reason to believe there’s plenty more, and perhaps even infinitely more [Universe out there beyond the portion that’s accessible to us] Which o
by vorg 12y ago
> we have every reason to believe there’s plenty more, and perhaps even infinitely more [Universe out there beyond the portion that’s accessible to us]
Which order of infinity do you mean when you say "infinitely more [space]" here? Aleph-One?
> we can extrapolate the Big Bang backwards to an arbitrarily hot, dense, expanding state, and what we find is that it didn’t get infinitely hot and dense early on
And what order of infinity here for the energy?
> the Universe was filled with energy inherent to space itself: a state that causes the Universe to expand at an exponential rate
If the infinity used to measure 2 different entities are of different orders, then there'd be at least an exponential differential between those entities. But what if the order of infinities is switched around between energy and space, could that then mean there's only one instance of inflated space in existence?
I've never read a discussion of multiverses, whether wrt inflation or quantum mechanics, where the order of infinity used is mentioned. Specifying what order of infinity is to be used for each measurement seems to be crucial to what result is infered.