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Good for him. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

this doesn't have anything to do with your previous claim that there is an an atom to atom copy of earth elsewhere in the universe though. could the universe be infinite? maybe. We can only see part of it and we can't measure the total energy of the big bang to determine an answer at this time.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Nothing? I'm not sure that's true. If the universe is infinite and homogeneous then that would infer all finite permutations of energy occur, not once but infinitely many times. As for actually proving the universe is infinite? It's not possible. We can only infer with measurements and physics which make accurate predictions we can measure. I mean not unless there's like some cool way to traverse truly unheard of distances. Like if you could move 10^100 light years in a direction and it's still the same even that wouldn't prove it's infinite but would really lend itself to the idea that it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That’s not inherently true, infinity can be bound

    There are an infinite amount of numbers between 2 and 3 but none of them are 5

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Reality as far as we know has a limited resolution aka the plank scale. It kinda makes sense. If an object like an atom required infinite information to encode it would collapse into a black hole.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If the universe is infinite and homogeneous then that would infer all finite permutations of energy occur, not once but infinitely many times.

    That's a big if.

    Something can be infinite without having any 1:1 repetition of all or any finite parts. Depends on how homogenous it really is and at what scale. If there are infinite permutations within a finite area, then it won't necessarily repeat ever. There's currently no proof of whether the universe is discreet or continuous.

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