🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't know if anybody is still reading this thread, but I wanted to clarify
something regarding my last two postings.  My original source of dismay
was the fact that people constantly make assertions about "a typical
universe" without having any precise notion of how to assign probabilities
to different Universes.  I went on to make the rash, unsupported claim
that there did not exist a measure on the space of possible Universes,
and so it was completely impossible to give such statements precise
meaning.

Steve Carlip rightly pointed out that I hadn't justified that statement,
and I still can't (although I think it's true).  What I want to point out
right now is that my original claim was that the statements people
make about "typical Universes," "fine-tuning" in cosmology, and so
forth are not justified by any kind of rigorous reasoning.   All I
need to justify this claim is the fact that nobody currently knows how
to define a measure on the set of possible Universes, which is a much
weaker claim than the one I made earlier (that such a measure can't
possibly exist).  This assertion is much easier to justify:  Read the
literature all you want, and you won't find such a measure.

All right, I'm done ranting for a while.

-Ted