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Re: Basement universes

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From: Anders Sandberg
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 10:31
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The many universes theory, first advanced by J Wheeler et al.

According to Dyson, a finite amount of energy is enough to
survive indefinitely in an open universe (the idea is to
spend some of the energy, then wait until the universe is
cold enough to make the remainin energy valuable enough,
spend half of it, wait some more... and so on). I don't
know how well this scheme works when taking into account
energy being lost due to leaks, tunneling etc. and the
fact that energy is quantified, making it impossible
to subdivide indefinitely (Or am I completely wrong? Can
there exist energy quantas smaller than any nonzero
energy?)

I don't think we could observe if our universe really is a 
basement universe. The "pinching-off" event took place 
at/before the big-bang, and unless there are some residual
wormholes leading to our mother universe, we would have no
possiblility distinguishing out universe from an "original"
universe created by "natural processes" (Whatever *that* is)
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From: nv91-asa@loire.nada.kth.se (Anders Sandberg)
Subject: Re: Basement universes
In-Reply-To: John Herrin's message of Sat, 4 Dec 1993 05:50:05 -0400
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