I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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meh"1) The universe is infinite. If it's infinite, it must contain infinite possibilities (planets made of glue populated by intelligent blancmanges that speak Dutch etc).
2) This means that at one point, the universe cannot exist - because that is one of the infinite possibilities. But if there is a point where the universe doesn't exist, the universe isn't infinite."
There is a difference between an infinite number of posibilities and 'everything exists.'
An infinite universe does not have to contain every possibility.
eg 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 ad infinitum. Even if the 5 isn't in there, even if you skip the next 1000 numbers, there are still an infinite amount of them.
I'm such a twat.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2005, 16:03, Reply)
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