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Subject: Alternate Universes
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Date: Sun, 18-Sep-83 12:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 18 12:34:00 1983
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From:  Joseph A. Frisbie <JAF at MIT-SPEECH at MIT-MC>


	If a new universe is created for each outcome of every
decision, it would seem you'd run out of stuff eventually. One cure for
this would be to have just as many universes converging as diverging
at a given moment. Another alternative would be to have converging
universes. You start with an infinite number (at the big bang say) and
as time goes along, the individual universes expand and merge. If you
believe in entropy, then as the entropy of the universe increases,
information that makes it distinct from all the other universes is
lost.  At the end, the universe ends in one homogeneous, lukewarm soup.
One homogeneous soup is just like another. If you believe in cycles,
If the universe begins to contract eventually, you can then have
the universes diverging (sort of conservation of "volume").
:-)
	Joe
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