why I don’t believe in an infinite universe.

(A lecture, foaming at the mouth)

“…An infinite universe doesn’t just mean that there are other planets, distant from ours, in which everything happens just the same, throughout the whole of history and forever into the future.

Or that there are other planets where everything is exactly the same bar a single event- you dropped a peanut, instead of eating the peanut.

And a Multi-verse of parallel Universes doesn’t just mean other universes peeling off every time an event with various probabilities occurs- you might eat a peanut, instead of dropping it- whoosh, there’s another universe to accommodate that.

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No no. not just that. It means that there is a world, or a universe, for every variety of slight difference of cellular decay in each of the cells in my arm. And your arm, but let’s stick with my arm for now.

And it means an infinite number of worlds that are exactly the same as this world. And an infinite number of worlds only slightly different. That’s what an infinite universe means.

You see, I can cope with an infinite number of different planets, full of different things each with their special meanings, but an infinite number of planets with only one mundane atoms difference and the whole of the rest of the planet EXACTLY THE SAME is too much.

Knowledge has moved away from everything revolving around us, either as replicants of the Divine or as the center of the solar system. An infinite number of universes makes a cell in my arm a central difference between here and at least an infinite number of other planets, and that I find hard to accept.

Nature just isn’t that inefficient.

Thank you for your kind attention…”