Here's two apparently unrelated hypotheses for you:
1. The universe contains infinite space and an infinite quantity of stuff.
2. The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true.
Both of these appear at first glance to be astonishingly wasteful, positing infinities upon infinities of things we can never observe and which can never affect us. As such, they appear to be more complex than ideas which assume that space is finite or that there is only one quantum world.
It would seem that Occam's razor weighs against them.
In this post, I will argue that in fact the reverse is true.
1. The universe contains infinite space and an infinite quantity of stuff.
2. The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true.
Both of these appear at first glance to be astonishingly wasteful, positing infinities upon infinities of things we can never observe and which can never affect us. As such, they appear to be more complex than ideas which assume that space is finite or that there is only one quantum world.
It would seem that Occam's razor weighs against them.
In this post, I will argue that in fact the reverse is true.
