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TopicIf there are infinite parallel universes...
archedsoul
06/23/22 3:17:03 AM
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Xethuminra posted...
Calm down.

let's say you created a puzzle using a tube and a handful of marbles with numbers on them to simulate the universe. if you pack the marbles tightly enough, the ones on the bottom will not be able to shift enough to switch places with the ones on top. But, if you shake it, they kinda move around and one shows the number on its face through a hole in the tube. The marbles are also too big to fit through the hole, but you can see a marble or two through it. You shake it and see the 4, the 2, the 3... But not the 5. Even though there is a 5 in there , it's stuck at the bottom and weighed down by the marbles and too big to be brought to the top. The possibility that the 5 could be at the top is still there. If you rearranged the marbles. It isn't like if you had a marble outside the tube and expect it to come up when you shake it. So on an infinite timeline, while there is a 5 in there, and it could show up at the top and that wouldn't be totally illogical, it is weighed down by other marbles and you only ever see a 4 or a 2 or a 3

But the outsider doesn't know this, and they keep betting that the 5 has to show up on an infinite timeline

But we all agree the 8 (which is not inside the tube) will never appear at the top of the tube
If it has a non-zero probability, it will eventually happen with infinite time, no matter how impossible it might seem.

If you say never, then it has a zero probability, which means it will never happen.

Again, I don't think you understand what infinity is, especially wrt to probabilities.

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