The probability for each win is separate from the others.
Suppose you flip a coin and get a thousand successive heads. The possibility of getting another head is 50%, it is not diminished by the thousand that preceded it.
OTOH the probability of getting a thousand heads is about one in 10^301.
The probability for each win is separate from the others.
Suppose you flip a coin and get a thousand successive heads. The possibility of getting another head is 50%, it is not diminished by the thousand that preceded it.
OTOH the probability of getting a thousand heads is about one in 10^301.
Physicists don't talk about that fine-tuning question much anymore. It could be that there have been a vast number of universes before us, or that in the multiverse every possible tuning is represented in another eigencosmos.
Yes, interesting questions. Why foreclose on the most obvious answer, namely that the game was rigged? Funny thing -- and it's hard to put this into words -- 'scale' breaks down. If I owe you a thousand bucks I feel the burden of that. If a million, then that's a whole lot worse, but if I owe 30 trillion (like the US does) that's sorta ... nothing. It's too big to 'feel'. Know what I mean? So we won the lottery 30 times in a row -- doesn't feel any different if we won it 50 times in a row, does it? Remedy? Easy! Just postulate an infinite number of universes -- that was simple, wasn't it? IMHO one should not try to solve problems by invoking infinity, I don't think it's sound science. God is better than infinity, God is more comprehensible -- it just turns out that the fundamental thing in the universe is consciousness -- as Max Planck believed. You know Knox's limericks of course.
I agree -- infinity is dangerous. But the singularity is considered infinitesimal, no? And the infinitesimal is just the evil twin of infinity -- just as unreal. Democritus could probably explain why.
The probability for each win is separate from the others.
Suppose you flip a coin and get a thousand successive heads. The possibility of getting another head is 50%, it is not diminished by the thousand that preceded it.
OTOH the probability of getting a thousand heads is about one in 10^301.
Physicists don't talk about that fine-tuning question much anymore. It could be that there have been a vast number of universes before us, or that in the multiverse every possible tuning is represented in another eigencosmos.
These are more interesting questions.
Yes, interesting questions. Why foreclose on the most obvious answer, namely that the game was rigged? Funny thing -- and it's hard to put this into words -- 'scale' breaks down. If I owe you a thousand bucks I feel the burden of that. If a million, then that's a whole lot worse, but if I owe 30 trillion (like the US does) that's sorta ... nothing. It's too big to 'feel'. Know what I mean? So we won the lottery 30 times in a row -- doesn't feel any different if we won it 50 times in a row, does it? Remedy? Easy! Just postulate an infinite number of universes -- that was simple, wasn't it? IMHO one should not try to solve problems by invoking infinity, I don't think it's sound science. God is better than infinity, God is more comprehensible -- it just turns out that the fundamental thing in the universe is consciousness -- as Max Planck believed. You know Knox's limericks of course.
Not infinite. Vast numbers, yes, not infinite. Infinity is in math only; any infinity in physics means something is wrong.
Don't think about infinity too long, it's unhealthy.
I agree -- infinity is dangerous. But the singularity is considered infinitesimal, no? And the infinitesimal is just the evil twin of infinity -- just as unreal. Democritus could probably explain why.