{"id":3478,"date":"2018-03-25T05:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2018-03-25T05:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:20:55","slug":"from-infinity-to-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"From Infinity To Certainty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Blake (lost, then recovered &#8211; sorry Blake!):<\/strong><br \/>\nIf there is an unlimited number of universes with an unlimited number of possibilities, then would there be a universe in which there doesn&#8217;t exist other universes?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUnlimited possibilities do not necessarily mean <em>every<\/em> possibility.  The set of multiples of two (2, 4, 6, 8&#8230;) has infinite numbers, but no odd numbers because odd numbers are not multiples of two.  The question uses the premise that there is an unlimited number of universes, and with that established the infinite universes you are <em>not<\/em> in are not negated by the one you are in, no matter what kind of universe it is.  The basic qualities of the set of universes make a solitary universe impossible.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA similar argument is sometimes used to establish the existence of a god.  See the <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1978\">piece<\/a> that just went up.  (That piece is the reason I found your question, due to similar subject matter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Blake (lost, then recovered &#8211; sorry Blake!): If there is an unlimited number of universes with an unlimited number of possibilities, then would there be a universe in which there doesn&#8217;t exist other universes? Answer by SmartLX: No. Unlimited possibilities do not necessarily mean every possibility. The set of multiples of two (2, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Infinity To Certainty?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,561,6],"tags":[9,119,117,725,116],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-science-2","category-text","tag-existence-of-god","tag-infinity","tag-multiverse","tag-probability","tag-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-U6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}