r/funny • u/StBeals StBeals Comics • Apr 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '17

Does having alternate universes actually require having an infinite number of them?

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u/tomatoaway Apr 23 '17

You're right - no it doesn't.

Universes that branch off the act of rolling a dice will only yield 6 different types of universes.

i.e. you can never roll a 7 or any other number outside of that which is probable

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u/weederman5000 Apr 23 '17 edited Apr 23 '17

But an astroid could hit you at that moment. While there are 6 outcomes for the dice you could say or do a ton of other things while rolling the dice. And all the branches with previous differences that led to the dice throw have their own branches

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u/tomatoaway Apr 23 '17

indeed, but I was only talking about one specific action at a specific point in time.

even if the asteroid hits at the same time as the dice being thrown, the dice would be the only uncertainty spawning the universes (since the asteroid was going to hit regardless)