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Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"

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Quantem Theory - A Measure for Universes

There is one theory in physics that already describes a multiverse for independent reasons. All its universes have the same constants of physics, and the interactions of those universes do not involve travel to or measurement of each other. But it does provide a measure for universes. That theory is quantem theory, which i shall discuss in chapter 11, skipping a very short part. Can avoid this anthropocentrism by referring instead to measuring instruments. A quantity is definitely neither infinite nor infinitesimal, if it could, in principle register on some measuring instrument. However, by that definition, a quantity can be finite, even if the underlying explanation refers to an infinite set. In a mathematical sense,

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