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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the laws of physics are just the same between all of the multiverses, and it’s impossible to travel between them. Maybe the walls between universes are so thick that nobody will ever even detect that the other universes are there at all, making it basically the same as there being no other universes in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep! Pi might be a “Normal” irrational number, which is a really poorly named classification that basically means that the “random” arrangement of numbers in pi isn’t weighted and so you’ll end up with 1 in 10 digits being 1, and that that will be true for all bases. We’re kind of at a point where we think Pi is “normal”, but we can’t prove it.

  If it is “normal” though, then that means that you could find any arbitrary sequence of numbers inside of pi, somewhere. Meaning that in base 128, pi would contain the ascii sequence for every book ever written, every book that ever will be written, every book that could be written, the accurate date of your death, and anything else you could ever imagine. Again, that’s not proven, but we think it’s the case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  right, but some movies show universes with very different pasts that still show a weirdly similar present. As you said, the smallest of things in the past should cause the present to be even more different, but in many movies that’s not the case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The part they’re misremembering is that if you used 39 digits of pi as pi (not 45), it would be enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with a forward error of less than the width of a hydrogen atom (not the distance between 3)