 Originally Posted by WakingNomad
In a multiverse of infinite possibility, everything is true somewhere.
That's an interesting concept, and I used to believe in it myself for many years. However, upon further thought, Level I parallel universes aren't really plausible. One would think that, with an infinite amount of occurrences, any one event would happen at least once. Take a 6-sided die, for instance. You might roll only 3s for your first hundred rolls, but over infinitely many rolls, you're bound to get each number at least once.
If you expand the die to every potential event in the universe, however, the implications become unrealistic. If the universe were infinite, every single possibility must occur at least once, at least somewhere. That means that, somewhere, there's an exact copy of this planet and every single event up to this point. However, at each moment, every possible divergence occurs, and again from each moment thereafter. There has to be some place where an exact copy of me makes this post, but begins it with the letter "a." There has to be another one where I post the letter "b." There actually must be two of each, one intentional and the other unintentional. There has to be one where someone walks into the room and types that one letter for me. Repeat that for every living person on the planet. Not only do "a" and "b" have to be somewhere, but each letter does, as well as each alphanumeric character and symbol. If you add another character, the possibilities increase. But this continues endlessly, and there would have to be a situation in which I post a line of random gibberish 53489763432435^45 lines long. Switch out each character for another. Quite frankly, that would never occur. Even with infinitely many scenarios, free will and inherent reason, as well as time constrictions, would prevent that from ever taking place.
Therefore, the physical universe is finite. Not every possibility takes place, even with an infinite number of occurrences.
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