RE: Cosmology Question

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 02:53:59 MST

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    Eliezer writes

    > > You would? Why? What's the practical difference between 200ly
    > > and 10^10^53ly? An erudite off-list correspondent emphasized to
    > > me in an email exchange that anything further away than 10^15
    > > ly is beyond our event horizon, so we can't ever learn anything
    > > about worlds 10^10^53 light years away, and so who cares? Well,
    > > I do. It feels warm and comfy to know that only 10^10^53 ly
    > > away another one of me is pounding out this same email. Gives
    > > me a sense of real community.
    >
    > Um, Lee, I'm afraid you've made a mistake. That "other version" *is* you.

    It's like I always say: duplicates are self.

    Or, in words you might appreciate more, all those Lee Corbin are
    belong to me.

    Lee



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