There's a lot of people running around telling us that there's a infinite multiverse, and that one of the implications is this: If something is possible, no matter how small the probability, it MUST happen in one of the individual universes that make up the infinite multiverse.
This is a crock.
Shemp's thought experiment: Imagine a universe that is exactly like ours, except that, on August 9, 1974, when U.S. President Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency, at that very moment, on national television, his head expanded to the size of Mount Rushmore and exploded, releasing a billion flying leprechauns. Now, you may say that is impossible, but there are people who argue that, in an infinite multiverse, anything is possible; therefore, there must be a universe where Richard Nixon's head expands, explodes and releases a billion flying leprechauns.
Nonsense.
I'm willing to accept a multiverse; I'm NOT willing to accept that it is infinite and contains an infinite number of universes. This concept of an infinite multiverse is no more provable than any religion, and I think that those who argue for an infinite multiverse are no better than religious zealots and are a disgrace to science. This includes the devotees of Everett's many-worlds theory; the idea that, at the moment of Nixon's resignation, the universe split into two universes, one where things continued as we know it, and another where Nixon's head expanded, exploded and released flying leprechauns, is pure insanity.
OK try to convince me I'm wrong. Maybe we'll end up with two universes, one where you convince me and one where you don't.
This is a crock.
Shemp's thought experiment: Imagine a universe that is exactly like ours, except that, on August 9, 1974, when U.S. President Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency, at that very moment, on national television, his head expanded to the size of Mount Rushmore and exploded, releasing a billion flying leprechauns. Now, you may say that is impossible, but there are people who argue that, in an infinite multiverse, anything is possible; therefore, there must be a universe where Richard Nixon's head expands, explodes and releases a billion flying leprechauns.
Nonsense.
I'm willing to accept a multiverse; I'm NOT willing to accept that it is infinite and contains an infinite number of universes. This concept of an infinite multiverse is no more provable than any religion, and I think that those who argue for an infinite multiverse are no better than religious zealots and are a disgrace to science. This includes the devotees of Everett's many-worlds theory; the idea that, at the moment of Nixon's resignation, the universe split into two universes, one where things continued as we know it, and another where Nixon's head expanded, exploded and released flying leprechauns, is pure insanity.
OK try to convince me I'm wrong. Maybe we'll end up with two universes, one where you convince me and one where you don't.
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