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The amount of people older than you never increases, amirite?
by Jbeier2 weeks ago
But highly unlikely to ever reach zero.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Unless there is a multiverse, then it's guaranteed
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
No, it's not. The vast majority of people die before they're the oldest person in the world.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
But in a multiverse, there could be infinitely many universes. And my chances of living to be the oldest person are definitely not even close to infinitely small. So it could be.
by OccasionFast2 weeks ago
There are infinite numbers between 1 and 2 but none are 3, that is to say just because a multiverse exists it wont guarantee any specific scenario has to happen
by CommunityLeather2 weeks ago
This version of them, however, isn't given infinite tries.
by Immediate_Blood2 weeks ago
Since when is a "multi verse with infinitely many universes" not infinite?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
What it does guarantee however, is that any possible event happens. If we're talking about an infinite multiverse at least..
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
That depends on what your definition of "possible event" is. In the context of the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, this would only apply to quantum events. Non-quantum events that have a non-zero classical probability might not appear anywhere in the multiverse. If we are not talking about the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, then you can have an infinite multiverse where every universe is the same - i.e. just because it is infinite does not mean that it has a Gaussian distribution.
by Westwilfrid2 weeks ago
Dis guy gets it.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
No he doesn't, just because every possibility could exist doesn't necessarily mean every possibility does exist.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Well there is also a theory called quantum immortality in which the reality you perceive is always the one that you still exist in. So basically if you had a near death experience you might have actually died but your consciousness just moved to the next reality where you didn't
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Quite the opposite. One person on earth is the oldest one. There will always be one of us who's the oldest. For him, it's zero.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
But that's "highly unlikely" to happen to anybody.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
If you phrase it like that then yes. It is highly unlikely that me or you will become the oldest person on earth.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Thank you for saving the world. What would we do without heroes such as yourself?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
This is why you are in charge
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
If anything the number is constantly dwindling down as we speak.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
In some cases, it even goes to zero!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Physics would like a word! If you were born at the exact same time as another person, and you were a frequent flyer, but the other person never flew in a jet in their life, that other person is now older than you. Remember that time slows down at a calculable rate as you approach the speed of light!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Calculable maybe, but I'm not sure we measure time of birth to microsecond precision
by tdoyle2 weeks ago
I don't think it would even be a microsecond unless you've flown across the world thousands of times. The Hafele–Keating experiment showed a difference of nanoseconds which is a thousandth of a microsecond.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
You are age is only calculated from your time of birth. Any personal time relativity you experience will not change your time of birth.
by Crystal192 weeks ago
It won't change the date/time of your birth but will it change how old you are relative to others that didn't experience dilation. It has nothing to do with your birth and everything to do with the passage of time since birth. Which people don't account for relativity when they calculate age so this point is moot, but if we're gonna debate it might as well get it right.
by Far_Turnover2 weeks ago
I mean people are still going to get hit by cars and whatnot. Even if you end up passing one person in that moment multiple older people will die
by FriendshipMountain682 weeks ago
jets approach the speed of light? cool!
by schultzautumn2 weeks ago
They do. They don't get at all close to it, but they "approach" it.
by stefan412 weeks ago
Those born on 29 feb?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Yup, that was what I was looking for!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Leap year babies can play that with birthdays as long as the population growth keeps up.
by Cautious-Wrangler6862 weeks ago
*has never increased, it may one day if we start traveling at significant fractions of the speed of light
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
So far, this is the oldest I've ever been.
by Nervous_Challenge_112 weeks ago
And the youngest you'll ever be again
by Annalise212 weeks ago
Unless you travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum.
by Nconsidine2 weeks ago
If they all ate a tremendous volume of food each day, the amount of people older would increase, though that may be offset by the decrease in the number of people.
by Shieldslelia2 weeks ago
If we had access to a space ship, we could make your statement incorrect. But still, this is a good one
by ApprehensiveDebt2 weeks ago
Incorrect, let me travel near the speed of light to the edge of the Solar system and back. It increased.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
If we count telemere length as age, people certainly do get older than others born at the same time. Many factors age people faster than others. Pollution, stress, biological differences, you name it. But on paper your right.
by Gullible_Custard2 weeks ago
This isn't true. I live on the west coast of America each day every person born on the same day as me become older than me one time zone at a time all around the world then I catch up and we do it all over again.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Never say never, all of a sudden someone builds the first time traveling machine
by InternationalAir91972 weeks ago
The amount of people younger than you never diminishes
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