Question about an infinite number of universes

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The forum discussion centers on the concepts of time travel and parallel universes, referencing Kolmogorov's zero-one law and Stephen Hawking's chronology protection conjecture. Participants argue that the absence of observable evidence, such as tourists from the future or alternate realities, suggests that backward time travel and parallel universe travel are impossible. The conversation also critiques the logical foundations of multiverse theories and the implications of an infinite regression of universes, ultimately questioning the necessity of an intelligent creator in explaining existence.

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It seems highly unlikely that other copies of "us" exist in an inflationary multiverse scenario.

The fluctuations that give rise to different universes would evolve differently would they not?

The infinite monkey theorem seems to agree concerning the improbability of a monkey typing out Hamlet in a finite amount of time...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem#Probabilities

Even if the observable universe were filled with monkeys typing from now until the heat death of the universe, their total probability to produce a single instance of Hamlet would still be less than one in 10^183,800
 

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