What's something that recently boggled your mind?

TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 68 points –
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That if there are infinite universes out there in the multiverse then there are infinite amount of universes exactly like this one. Which means we’re stuck living this exact life across infinite universe and we’ll never be able to escape it. So that’s kind of depressing but mind blowing I guess

Perhaps. But infinite universes is still just a theory. So why let such a astronomical 'what if,' get you down?

Yep, if there's an infinite number of parallel universes then there's an infinite number where nothing is different. Maybe the only difference between the universes was the position of a mote of dust on an uninhabited planet in a galaxy on the other side of the universe.

If the many worlds interpretation is correct, that would mean that there's not really an infinite number of discrete realities, but more of a continuum. So there are infinite other realities in the same way that there are infinite points on a line, but this exact reality is still unique.

Wouldn't be an infinite number of them where the fork in the road is still ahead?

That's not right at all by my thinking.

Infinite multiverse means infinite exact same universe as ours, yes. But it also means there are also infinite different universes. But you can use comparisons to see that there would likely be more universes that are different than ours because of small permutations in history causing larger effects in the future. So I like to think there are both many exact universes, and many very different universes.

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