Originally Posted by
OngBonga
Pretty good explanation for why the "many interpretations" theory is (very very probably) a load of bollocks.
Also, who's to say if that theory is viable that there are an infinite number of alternative universes? Why not simply approaching infinity (but finite at any given point in time)?
On an unrelated sbuject, here's something that blows my mind...
Imagine first a "table" with edges that bounce balls perfectly elastically, ie no energy is lost... all energy and momentum is conserved.
Take two balls, ball A, which has a mass of x, and ball B, which has a mass of 16x. Now roll them towards each other at the same velocity. When they hit each other, ball A will bounce off ball B, because B is much larger. Ball A will then hit the edge of the "table" (losing no momentum), and then bounce right back at ball B and hit it again.
The question is, how many times does ball A bounce off ball B before ball B loses its energy and starts to move backwards?
The answer is 3.
Now scale the big ball up x100.
Now the answer is 31.
Scale up x100 again
314
and again
3141
next
31415
then
314159
and then
3141592
And on and on... so long as we're scaling up x100 from an intial ratio of 16:1 then we get the digits of pi. This works all the way.
Where the fuck is pi coming from here? This has nothing to do with circles, it would happen with cubes, under the same conditons, ie conservation of energy and momentum, which means no friction.
THAT shit blows my mind, not thought experiments about the improbability of many worlds.