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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Infinite Number of Particles in the Universe

If the universe is spatially flat or negatively curved and not top logically twisted up, it will be infinite in size. There's no principled reason why it should be that. So there ill be an infinite number of people exactly like you and me, somewhere else,. very, very, very far away. That right there raises these philosophical problems of how to deal with the maltiverse.

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