Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:50AM
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My understanding is that the infinity of "all integers greater than zero" and of "all integers greater than zero and divisible by 2" are in fact infinities of the _same_ size.
The same would apply for "divisible by 100" or "divisible by 1 million". This would apply to the fraction of worlds that are populated, whatever fraction of them are.
Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by zimpenfish on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:02AM
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As best I understand it, all those reduce to aleph-zero because they're countably infinite and can be mapped to the natural numbers. But aleph-one exists and is provably bigger than aleph-zero despite both being infinite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number http://www.alephzero.co.uk/what.htm
> But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are.
There are infinities of different sizes