iig

... number of worlds ...

Dec 03, 2002 17:58

> It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because ( Read more... )

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lazylonelion December 3 2002, 08:31:08 UTC
Чий текст ?

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iig December 3 2002, 08:43:46 UTC
Перша частина, це цитата з книги "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", друга - це коментарій до неї одного з читачів конференції alt.fan.heinlein.

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Re: lazylonelion December 3 2002, 08:48:41 UTC
коментар теж неправомірний. :)

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iig December 3 2002, 09:03:18 UTC
скорше за все, але дискусія цікава :-)
там ще є один погляд на це все:
"
I'd say there's a fault even before that. The "space" we know is
surely infinite as in "no definite end to it", but it's not infinite
as in "covers an infinite amount of space right now". Space, as I
see it, is the distance between objects (no objects, no space), so
it would take an infinite number of objects for space to grow
infinite. An infinite number of objects needs infinite time to
position itself in an infinite amount of space, and time is - at any
given moment - not infinite, as the time that has passed is clearly
defined by the movements of the objects that took place up to that
moment. So: no infinite time, no infinite objects, no infinite
space.

Thus, space is limited, but only by the time that the objects have
to move away from each other and the speed of the objects.

Now, this leaves us with a finite number of people on a finite
number of worlds in a finite amount of space...
"

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