Protagonist wants to meet his exact clone

[DaveC426913]

What exactly defines an exact clone?

That's my point. Its problematic.
For example, he has to stick around at least until Christmas to find out what colour socks this iteration wears.

 

[DaveC426913]

That's still a conjecture.

Yes. This is a what if story. I'm. It not sure what the problem is.

 

[DaveC426913]

Again, that's a conjecture. There's no physical evidence of duplicate Earth's

There's no physical evidence of what's inside the event horizon of a BH either. Does that mean the OP is forbidden fron writing a fictional story about it ?

 

[PeroK]

There's no physical evidence of what's inside the event horizon of a BH either. Does that mean the OP is forbidden fron writing a fictional story about it ?

I was talking about Tegmark's paper, not a SF story.

 

[chasrob]

I just realized--the main character is unique in all multiverses (author fiat) because he was transformed into a super-powered entity. At that moment, he differed from all those copies (I read that there are 10^{10^18} possible life-experiences a person can have, based on a sensory bandwidth of 10¹⁰ bits per second) that were scattered about the multiverse. So, later on when he searches, since there were no exact, identical copies to be found, so he just needs a near copy. Same countenance, age, parents, siblings, friends, etc.

 

[DaveC426913]

I just realized--the main character is unique in all multiverses (author fiat) because he was transformed into a super-powered entity. At that moment, he differed from all those copies

But ... in an infinite universe, they are innumerable versions of him that also got transformed! You can't have it both ways*!

*_{Wait, I mean you can't not have it both ways.}

 

[Algr]

In an infinite universe, anything you want is infinitely far away, and you need infinite data to even describe what direction it is. Also, infinite obstructions, and an infinite post telling you how infinitesimal you are.
- Merry Christmas.

 

[chasrob]

But ... in an infinite universe, they are innumerable versions of him that also got transformed! You can't have it both ways*!

*_{Wait, I mean you can't not have it both ways.}

A unique entity by author fiat, Dave!

At first, I had the protagonist with infinite powers, but since a lot of SF has some character (Galactus, etc.) with infinite so-and-so abilities, I changed to a nice finite range of super-powers... “arrow chains” … easy to understand with my high school math and actually ginormous without bothering with those confusing (to me) “infinites”.

 

[chasrob]

A unique entity by author fiat, Dave!

...
Actually not feeling so God-like at the moment; got a sinus affliction bothering the hell out of me. On Christmas day!

 

[chasrob]

Urk. Gizmodo: There's another version of you out there mirroring your every action 10 to the 10^188 meters away. I thought that version was only 10 to the 10^29 meters. Wonder where Grabianowski got that figure?

 

[chasrob]

Urk. Goofed above (if anyone cares). Gizmodo: There's another version of you out there in the identical Hubble Volume mirroring your every action 10 to the 10^188 meters away. I thought that version was only 10 to the 10^115 meters. Wonder where Grabianowski got that figure?

 

[chasrob]

Physicist Brian Greene claimed that "... in every region of space that's roughly 10^(10^122)
meters across, there should be a cosmic patch that replicates ours--you, the earth, the galaxy, and everything else that inhabits our cosmic horizon."