[ExI] Dark Energy and Causal Cells

[Stuart LaForge]

BillW wrote:

> It is possible that my statement was misinterpreted.  I was speaking >as if
> I were the common person who wants certainty.

Misinterpretation or not, it was the perfect opportunity to answer you as
if you were the common person who wants certainty. No slight intended to
you or anyone else. Just an opportunity to appeal to those who prefer
dogma to discovery. Feel free to share the good news.

> Yes, there are plenty of fools around - casinos aren't lacking for
> customers, eh?  Like second marriages - the triumph of hope over
> experience.

When experience fails, as it often does when environmental changes are
sudden and unexpected, hopeful foolishness is not a bad fallback option.
>From an evolutionary perspective that is.

> But - I have no idea why the concept of infinity is tied to other
>copies of
> everyone.  Or fate.      Stuart ???

A fair question. It is a mathematically provable statement that the power
set of a finite set is also finite. Potentially very large but still
finite. This is true even if the original finite set is a subset of an
infinite set.

To put it in layman's terms. Imagine that causal cells are like boxes of
Legos with atoms being the bricks.

The small black holes are like small boxes of Legos that only contain a
few hundred bricks. The larger causal cells, like our observable universe,
are like very large deluxe Lego sets with several thousand bricks.

Obviously you can build many different things with either set. But you can
build a larger variety of things with the larger set. If N is the number
of bricks in the set, then the number of possible structures that can be
built with that set is on the order of 2^N.

If you took an infinite number of 1000 piece Lego sets and gave them to an
infinite number of children who were unable to communicate with each other
or combine Lego sets, the infinite children, would simply by chance build
every possible structure(s) composed of 1000 Lego bricks.

In fact, every possible structure would be duplicated an infinite number
of times even if only 1 in 2^1000 children have identical Lego structures.
That is simply a property of infinity.

In the case of our causal cell, with approximately 10^80 atoms, that is an
incredibly large number of possible structure(s) but nonetheless you are
one of those structures.

And given an infinite number of finite causal cells, all with the same
laws of physics because they are all in the same infinite universe, you
are guaranteed to show up in every possible variation of your life, an
infinite number of times. No different than Legos.

Does that help you understand?

Stuart LaForge