Recent content by Redblue88

Maybe not a baseball, but a whiffle ball, maybe? See 4:07 of this video.

This is very helpful and exactly the insight I was looking for. This is the kind of "unspoken" constraint that is missing from what I've seen in the lay press. I assumed it was there, but I've been curious whether it's baked into the theories. Thank you very much @Ibix and @jbriggs444

Please re-read the title of the post - I'm asking for what the popular press is leaving out (I provided a link and wikipedia entry as examples). As a lay person, I may not have access to the textbook or peer-reviewed article with the answer. I can't find anything for the proposition that if...

An infinite number of universes with an infinite number of possible physical laws suggests there must be one universe with physical laws that satisfy the condition. To say otherwise means there is some unspoken (in the popular press) bounding condition, which is what I think is going on. I've...

I've read in several places that some cosmological theories posit the existence of an "infinite number of universes" with laws of physics different from our own. I'm sure there's a lot of shortcutting in the reporting and "infinite" can't really mean infinite, can it? Wouldn't an infinite number...

Hello everyone. I'm happy to have found the website I didn't know I needed. As a lay-person, thank you in advance to anyone who can answer my questions and also sorry in advance if I ask something stupid or something already answered (I promise to search before I ask, but I can't guarantee I...