The amount of people older than you never increases, amirite?

But highly unlikely to ever reach zero.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Unless there is a multiverse, then it's guaranteed

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No, it's not. The vast majority of people die before they're the oldest person in the world.

by Anonymous 1 year 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 OccasionFast 1 year 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 CommunityLeather 1 year ago

This version of them, however, isn't given infinite tries.

by Immediate_Blood 1 year ago

Since when is a "multi verse with infinitely many universes" not infinite?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What it does guarantee however, is that any possible event happens. If we're talking about an infinite multiverse at least..

by Anonymous 1 year 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 Westwilfrid 1 year ago

Dis guy gets it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No he doesn't, just because every possibility could exist doesn't necessarily mean every possibility does exist.

by Anonymous 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year ago

But that's "highly unlikely" to happen to anybody.

by Anonymous 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year ago

Thank you for saving the world. What would we do without heroes such as yourself?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is why you are in charge

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If anything the number is constantly dwindling down as we speak.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In some cases, it even goes to zero!

by Anonymous 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year ago

Calculable maybe, but I'm not sure we measure time of birth to microsecond precision

by tdoyle 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year 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 Crystal19 1 year 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_Turnover 1 year 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 FriendshipMountain68 1 year ago

jets approach the speed of light? cool!

by schultzautumn 1 year ago

They do. They don't get at all close to it, but they "approach" it.

by stefan41 1 year ago

Those born on 29 feb?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yup, that was what I was looking for!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Leap year babies can play that with birthdays as long as the population growth keeps up.

by Cautious-Wrangler686 1 year ago

*has never increased, it may one day if we start traveling at significant fractions of the speed of light

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So far, this is the oldest I've ever been.

by Nervous_Challenge_11 1 year ago

And the youngest you'll ever be again

by Annalise21 1 year ago

Unless you travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum.

by Nconsidine 1 year 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 Shieldslelia 1 year ago

If we had access to a space ship, we could make your statement incorrect. But still, this is a good one

by ApprehensiveDebt 1 year ago

Incorrect, let me travel near the speed of light to the edge of the Solar system and back. It increased.

by Anonymous 1 year 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_Custard 1 year 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 Anonymous 1 year ago

Never say never, all of a sudden someone builds the first time traveling machine

by InternationalAir9197 1 year ago

The amount of people younger than you never diminishes

by Professional_Elk2662 1 year ago

But the number of people dying does

by davisedwina 1 year ago

I find this mildly disturbing

by tyreekokeefe 1 year ago

Tell that to Cambodia >.>

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's not true for astronauts

by Anonymous 1 year ago

How about after you die?

by Leading_Resolve7053 1 year ago

Unless you are a leap year baby

by Anonymous 1 year ago