(April 23, 2014 at 7:05 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote:(April 23, 2014 at 3:52 pm)Heywood Wrote: What does a multiverse, quantum mechanics, and your powerful randomization get us?
Imagine a universe just like ours. In that universe is a man that some call Tim.
Now Tim wishes to explode a bush. So he points at the bush. In most universe nothing happens....But in a subset of universes....as a matter of pure happenstance, a quantum fluctuation happens at the same time and the bush is transformed into an exploding bush. Tim tries this again....and in most universes....nothing happens the second time he tries it...but in a subset of universes....as a matter of happenstance...a quantum fluctuation happens that transform the second bush into an exploding bush. There are going to be some universes that whenever Tim tries to cast a spell....as a matter of happenstance the effect of the spell he was casting comes to realization.
A problem I have with an infinite number of universes....is it leads to ridiculous worlds in which magic and sorcery exist.
Nice attempt at the reductio ad absurdum, but how do you know there aren't any universes in which this occurs? How do you know the conclusion is false?
I can't prove it false so it must be right?
