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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by inventingwithmo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:51AM (#16069096)
I realise I'm arguing against a work of comedy, but:

> But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are.

There are infinities of different sizes

Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:50AM (#16069636)
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 (#16069696)
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

Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by b3lvedere on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:55AM (#16069116)
Of course. Of course. You are totally right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23I5GS4JiDg