• TiredThinker
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    I think generally some physicists are open to the idea of other worlds, but few would say it is necessary to have a universe for every possible universe that can exist. But what are the implications of having more universes that 2 or more universes are exactly identical to one another? Would this be mathematically useless when trying to make the universe seem balanced?
  • Miller
    158
    what is beyond the universe? a multiverse? what is beyond that? the omniverse? what is beyond that?

    keep going
  • 180 Proof
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    Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. — John Duns Scotus
    Reformulated eventually by the barber William of Ockham.
  • tim wood
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    From a book: "Thus the guiding principle of nominalist logic for Ockham was his famous razor: do not multiply universals needlessly. While we cannot, as finite beings, make sense of the world without universals, every generalization takes us one more step away from the real. Hence, the fewer we employ the closer we remain to the truth." The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Gillespie, 2008. The nominalist reply to the realists. Not for simpler arguments and proofs, but to get closer to God.
  • Outlander
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    Who's to say our entire observable universe is really anything but a three inch petri dish in some alien stoner's college dorm he made for a project and forgot about because he got high. You wouldn't know. So why do some act like they do?
  • jgill
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    But what are the implications of having more universes that 2 or more universes are exactly identical to one another?TiredThinker

    None. Probability is a notion having arisen by observation and ideation in this universe.
  • 180 Proof
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    Oh yes, the good friar got the lex parsimoniae from other men of the cloth to minimize the obfuscations of conceptual realism. No doubt a corollarial remnant of the via negativa. :pray:
  • Agent Smith
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    14,000,605! The magic number. :grin:

  • Hello Human
    195
    But what are the implications of having more universes that 2 or more universes are exactly identical to one another? Would this be mathematically useless when trying to make the universe seem balanced?TiredThinker

    What do you mean by "mathematically useless" ? Why should a multiverse be "useful" or "balanced" ? Useful (or useless) to whom ?
  • Agent Smith
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    14 000 605 possible outcomes? How can he be ahead of the future while being part of the present?Goldyluck

    Good question! Sc-fi ring any bells?
  • TiredThinker
    819


    Still unclear on how the Ancient One knew Strange would be the best of all of them despite not being able to see past her own death.
  • TiredThinker
    819


    I assume those that mathematically try to calculate how many different worlds there are require a balance as there needs to be balances in each world.
  • jgill
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    The worlds according to TegmarkGoldyluck

    Bless his heart. I pray he comes to his senses. :worry:


    I assume those that mathematically try to calculate how many different worlds there are . . .TiredThinker

    Medieval scholasticism rises anew. :roll:
  • Agent Smith
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    Still unclear on how the Ancient One knew Strange would be the best of all of them despite not being able to see past her own death.TiredThinker

    Not magic but plain Sherlock Holmesian deduction. The Ancient One knew they kind of person Dr. Strange was (haughty, abrasive, (over) confident, etc.) and deduced all the mistakes he would make in his life before magic and after magic. Ironic isn't it, that Dr. Strange was chosen for his flaws & errors rather than his goodness and ability to do the right thing.

    Deduction, logic in a broader sense, trumps clairvoyance. There's an old Buddhist story about that. Look it up.
  • TiredThinker
    819


    I heard Tilda might be in the sequel somehow.
  • Agent Smith
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    I heard Tilda might be in the sequel somehow.TiredThinker

    I'm waiting patiently...bitten-off-all-my-nails patiently.
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