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by dostick 431 days ago
Yes we don’t know if other universes exist. So it’s 50/50 infinity or one. Then if our universe came into existence, then probability is not 50/50, because we know that something exists, therefore something else is more likely to exist, probability towards infinity.

If you were observer of emptiness and no universe or anything existing then you would say it’s more likely there will be nothing, so probability towards zero.

Not to forget the recursion. There’s likely universes within our elementary particles or our universe is a particle in parent one.

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> There’s likely universes within our elementary particles or our universe is a particle in parent one.

This is a very nonstandard use of the word "likely".

The recursion dimension can not be only having something in this narrow band where we are. There can’t be nothing if you go deeper than subatomic level. Because it has to be made of something in order to support larger recursion.
Please don't present your fantasy as anything to do with actual established science, please.
probability does not work that way
Actually I think it might? If I describe an arbitrary hypothetical object to you is it more likely that it exists or doesn't exist? How does that compare to the case where I present you with a single example of an object and ask you to guess if others that are substantially similar to it exist?

You have so little information that any estimate is effectively arbitrary. Nonetheless I think there's a clear statistical bias between the two choices in both cases.