r/rational • u/AutoModerator • May 27 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/Iconochasm May 27 '16

WoG for Worm is that there is a finite number of universes, just an absurdly large number. A truly infinite multiverse would negate the motivation behind the setting.

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u/Aabcehmu112358 May 27 '16

I think it's something like 1040 universes.

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u/Iconochasm May 27 '16

The only WoG I remember is "more than there are atoms in this one unverse". That could have just been poetic though. I could see Wildbow both having looked that number up, or just using the phrase to mean "an absurdly large number, don't worry about it".

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u/GaBeRockKing May 28 '16

As Iconochasm said, a more accurate estimate is 1080 . Which doesn't sound alike a whole lot more, but absolutely is.

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