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Mister Glass
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I disagree.
The "infinite theory", or whatever it would be called can not be possible.
By definition, this allows an infinite number of universes and parallel diminsions. And by being infinite that means that there can be nothing larger than it.
Well I can, right now, prove that there IS something larger than the number of realities in "everything".
I used to believe in just this type of theory. And it is an appealing one to believe in, because it means that every story written or imagined is actually taking place somewhere. Somewhere Frodo is carrying the ring to Mount Doom to foil Sauron. Somewhere, James T Kirk is captaining the Enterprise across the galaxy. Since the universe is infinite, it is always bigger than our imagination.
Problem is this. I can imagine a universe in which there is a monster that can reach out across all the universes/dimensions. It can, and does, at this very moment burn every other living thing in all the other universes/diminsions into a crisp at this very moment.
The fact that I am still here proves that this one thing did not happen. And in that case, my imagination is bigger than the number of possibilities in the universe(s). And if that is the case, by definition, it is not truly "infinite", because nothing can be bigger than something that is infinite.
thegame1234 said:I was thinking of something like the "infinite theory" today about it being the only possible explanation of this world, even though It doesn't help science in a practical sense or any other sense for that matter, but it does provide a sort of starting theory for THE explanation of universe and how it works...and the thing about the theory is that even if you can't possibly prove it...you also CAN NOT disprove it either.
I disagree.
The "infinite theory", or whatever it would be called can not be possible.
By definition, this allows an infinite number of universes and parallel diminsions. And by being infinite that means that there can be nothing larger than it.
Well I can, right now, prove that there IS something larger than the number of realities in "everything".
I used to believe in just this type of theory. And it is an appealing one to believe in, because it means that every story written or imagined is actually taking place somewhere. Somewhere Frodo is carrying the ring to Mount Doom to foil Sauron. Somewhere, James T Kirk is captaining the Enterprise across the galaxy. Since the universe is infinite, it is always bigger than our imagination.
Problem is this. I can imagine a universe in which there is a monster that can reach out across all the universes/dimensions. It can, and does, at this very moment burn every other living thing in all the other universes/diminsions into a crisp at this very moment.
The fact that I am still here proves that this one thing did not happen. And in that case, my imagination is bigger than the number of possibilities in the universe(s). And if that is the case, by definition, it is not truly "infinite", because nothing can be bigger than something that is infinite.