08-07-2006, 03:24 AM
Nate Hunter Wrote:If you understand string theory, then why should you discount any possibilities, Shadowknight? And probability reasoning: The closer to infinite the size of our universe becomes, the probability of all (non-mutually exclusive) possibilities being expressed becomes closer to 1. Thus IF our universe is infinite, ALL possibilities ARE expressed at some point within it.
Not saying the universe IS infinite, just that statistically speaking, if it is, then you're wrong to say that they're wrong in believing in it.
No, no, no. That's not how String Theory works. It doesn't say that anything imaginable exists. It says that every possibility of what could have happened since the creation of the laws of nature as we know them were first put into effect (several seconds after the big bang), hypothetically exists. The concept of the digital world breaks basic laws of physics as we know them. There may be loopholes we don't know about, and we may not even understand the universe well enough, but because one would have to break every known natural law for such a place to exist, it's entirely impossible. In other words, every possibility exists, right, but the digiworld could have never been a possibility.
That's how I've read into it at any rate.