FTA:
There are an infinite number of mes writing this, and an infinite number of yous reading it
According to the current standard model of cosmology, the observable universe – containing all the billions of galaxies and trillions upon trillions of stars mentioned above – is just one of an infinite number of universes existing side-by-side, like soap bubbles in a foam.
Because they are infinite, every possible history must have played out. But more than that, the number of possible histories is finite, because there have been a finite number of events with a finite number of outcomes. The number is huge, but it is finite. So this exact event, where this author writes these words and you read them, must have happened an infinite number of times.
Even more amazingly, we can work out how far away our nearest doppelganger is. It is, to put it mildly, a large distance: 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 28 meters. That number, in case you were wondering, is one followed by 10 billion billion billion zeroes
What really boggles the mind isn't just that there could be this many other ''us's'' out there in various stages of doing the things that we are doing, have done or will do - but that this doesn't even take into consideration the infinite other dimensions that could contain other ''us's''.
Whoa, dude, pass the joint.
