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by runawaybottle 2226 days ago
I might be conflating this with parallel universes, but what would be an example of this?

If variations of ‘me’ exist in all worlds, am I the universal constant?

Speaking as the center of the universe as far I’m concerned over here :p

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an example would be the speed of light is different. or the mass of certain particles is different. or the dark matter to normal matter ratios are changed.
versions of you could not exist in all worlds, but there are still an infinite number of universes where you exist
I don't understand how this could be true. The chances of you coming into existence require an astronomical number of things to happen in an exact time and order. Changing any number of those variables will cause a chain reaction that will make your existence not happen.

If we assume the universe is deterministic, then changing any of the starting variables of the universe will cause a different course of events playing out. If the speed of light were different, for example, a different course of events would have played out and you and I would have never come into existence.

If we assume the universe is not deterministic, then even if we had another universe with the exact same starting variables, the chances that things would play out exactly the same are also absurdly small.

Just because a set of things is infinite does not mean that it will contain everything. I could have an infinite set of odd numbers, and none of those numbers will be even. It strikes me that infinite number of universes would be the same.