If the universe consists of an infinite number of parallel universes.....

[alluvial]

I was going to reply to this thread but I think I better wait until my kidneys have dealt with the excess of red win that I've drunk tonight.

[BolshieBastard]

I was going to reply to this thread but I think I better wait until my kidneys have dealt with the excess of red win that I've drunk tonight.

Dont bother, in another universe, you already have!

[alluvial]

Dont bother, in another universe, you already have!

Ah, but in this universe I have now started on a can of Stella. So I shall definately refrain.

[VirtualMonkey]

i suggest you have a listen to the infinite monkey cage from radio 4 on monday. should be on the iplayer by now.
they had this discussion on there

[Ignis Fatuus]

If the universe consists of an infinite number of parallel universes where each conceivable option throughout the last 13.7bn of existence is simultaneously played out, wouldn't logic state that in one of those parallel universes parallel universes don't exist?

Clearly that particular universe is not really conceivable, by reductio ad absurdum.

[BlasterBates]

In the film I was watching last night where a company offered time travel safaris at the time of the dinosaurs, a client accidentally stood on a butterfly and the entire evolution of man was wiped out.

This got me thinking....suppose the butterfly was killed by a lizard, then this would have had the same effect, so just remember before you kill a fly or an ant or a beetle this may just wipe out a future civilisation.

[SimonMac]

Given that God is infinite, and given that the Universe is infinite... would you like a toasted tea cake?

[Paddy]

In the film I was watching last night where a company offered time travel safaris at the time of the dinosaurs, a client accidentally stood on a butterfly and the entire evolution of man was wiped out.

This got me thinking....suppose the butterfly was killed by a lizard, then this would have had the same effect, so just remember before you kill a fly or an ant or a beetle this may just wipe out a future civilisation.

Or you unknowingly kill the only fly that has mutant genes that would have wiped the entire human race within five years

[alluvial]

In the film I was watching last night where a company offered time travel safaris at the time of the dinosaurs, a client accidentally stood on a butterfly and the entire evolution of man was wiped out.

This got me thinking....suppose the butterfly was killed by a lizard, then this would have had the same effect, so just remember before you kill a fly or an ant or a beetle this may just wipe out a future civilisation.

Ooh, I remember that short story. Maybe Asimov or Clarke. If I remember it correctly, there is a carefully calculated path laid out that they can't deviate from but he steps off of it to get a better shot at a T-Rex and squishes the butterfly.

[wobbegong]

Given that God is infinite, and given that the Universe is infinite... would you like a toasted tea cake?

No toast! Or muffins! We don't like muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks!