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Old 27-March-2008, 04:54 PM
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Default Ok.. Another approach

So, I've thought about it over night, and I have a clearer way that if someone can point me to the right information, this may make me accept (and perhaps understand) this idea.

- There is a VERY low probability that the world as it exists now would have occured as it exists now (life, geography, etc).
- Given an infinite universe with a finite number of Quantum States, it becomes more likely to recur exactly as it is than an infinite universe with an infinite number of Quantum States for each particle.

But, As the size of the universe goes onto infinity, does the a graph of the probability of an infinite number of 'other earths' approach 1 or does it just get closer and closer (zeno's paradox like) to 1?

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As I write this.. forget it.. My mind has been broken by the function of infinity.. I would think a safe proposition to take would be 'The repetition of events in an infinite universe is un-avoidable, the repetition of a particular event is probable.' and leave it at that. The statement that there is another me out there is possible, and maybe even probable, but not something we can validate experimentally (yet).

Anyone recommend any good books on the mind-benders of infinity?
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