There's an article on Scientific American about parallel universes. In its explanation, the article says:
The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.You know, I used to wonder about that. Not parallel universes, but that whole "infinite" thing. Like when they taught me that pi went on inifinitely, I asked my math teacher "Does that mean pi contains all of Shakespeare's works somewhere?" I'm not sure if he answered the question, but a few years later, I read about a similar question: If pi is really infinite, does it contain itself -and everything else? Does it contain the entire human genome? Some codification of reality? If that's the case, is pi really a number of its own, or is it just a segment in a sequence of data that we refer to as reality? Then that would mean reality is just data... Great, I just proved that we all merely exist inside some massive data storage device (so what am I, a pointer?).
On a semi-related note, nobody has yet been able to answer one of my long time questions: How does luck work?
Posted Tue, April 15, 2003 13:25 by dirvish
I am Pi, therefore I am?
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