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If that's true then there may be other worlds\footnote{We don't have any proof for the existence of other worlds, but one could expect them to exist for the same reason that ours exists. If ours has no reason at all for existing, which is likely if it is not created, then it's likely that other worlds would also not need any reason for existing and would simply be. However, for the purpose of this \paper{} it does not matter if there are other worlds or not and maybe we will never be able to tell if other worlds exist or not.}. Even if there are no other worlds, one could easily imagine that ours worked in a different way, say that the speed of light is different or gravity works differently. We will denote by \definitie{possible worlds} these other worlds that either are or could have been.  \section{Rough argument \section{Argument  summary} The argument is more complex in order to avoid various pitfalls, but the basic idea is this:  I am trying to compute the probability of our world given that it was not created. For any property $p$ such that our world has this property, the probability of our world is at most the probability of $p$, where the probability of $p$ is the probability of all worlds having the $p$ property. Then, if there is such a property $p$ whose probability is $0$ then our world's probability is $0$. I will also discuss why it is enough to use that property.