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Originally posted by shrubbery
Fact: The universe is infinite.
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Nope.
Hypothesis: The universe is infinite.
It's widely believed to be true in cosmological circles. But nobody's actually been out there in the universe far enough away to test it. So it's still only a hypothesis, and not a fact.
Now to respond to your actual POINT!
I read an article in Scientific American a few months ago that proved three different ways the "multiple earths in parallel universes" theories, and which resulted in three different models of parallel universes.
The simplest one is roughly what you're saying--given the sheer gobsmacking size of the universe, and the recent discovery that the universal mass temperature is amazingly consistent (sorry, cliche, but .3333 repeating DOES turn out to contain every possible digit!), there's got to be SOMEWHERE that's just like this, plus an infinite number of places that are ALMOST just like this.
The most complex one posited multiple universes that are different shapes and ruled by different laws of physics. I can't quite remember how it was proven, but at the end of the article, I was convinced.