(April 9, 2010 at 7:08 am)Pippy Wrote: "So if you throw a dice six entire new universes have to spring into existence to permit the six possible outcomes."
What about the universe where the die falls on the floor and you lose it? Or it disappears. Or a comet hits your house and squishes yourself and said die. Don't neglect the parallel universe where humans never invented dice, and the one where the dinosaurs became the sentient race...
That's what this line is about,
"And then you have to allow for all the possible trajectories before it comes to rest and all the possible places it could come to rest in."
And that is my point, if you think of ALL the things that occur in the universe in one second,plus all
of their alternative outcomes.
Then an almost infinite number will have to be created to cover those outcomes,
then those infinite number of universes will each need thier own infinity of universes for their outcomes.
Every second, for billions of years.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.