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I was the first person to downvote. Not because I don't grasp, but because I believe your explanation is in the best too brief to be generally intelligible. My negative opinion can be, of course, due to my stupidity, but as for my downvoting strategy, my own judgment is all I can rely upon. (My judgment also tells me that you appear a bit oversensitive to downvoting.)
From the former comment:
I don't see how it is relevant. Quantum branching doesn't require Omniverse. That alone makes your argument seemingly irrelevant. But let's proceed.
I have no clear idea what a probability of event happening in the Omniverse means. Could you elaborate? (Possible issues: From an observer-independent point of view, the event either happens or not. The observers are restricted to their own universes, how do they construct probabilities over events in different universes? If the generic word "event" is replaced by the actual specification of the event, is the number of universe included - i.e. do you replace it by "two protons collide at given x,y,z,t" or rather "two protons collide at given x,y,z,t in universe #554215"? How do you solve the apparent problem that the given definition of the event may not have sense in some universes, e.g. if the universe happens to be one-dimensional and have no protons in it for the example given above? If you simply mean "for any event, we can imagine a universe that contain it", why did you start speaking about probabilities?)
Is this supposed to justify the previous claim, i.e. that the probability of any event in Omniverse is 1? If so, I don't regard "each universe contains something, therefore any event has probability 1 in the Omniverse" a valid inference, whatever interpretation of both the premise and the conclusion I can imagine.
What is "long run"? Does it mean "in other universes" (that would make sense, but the choice of words "long run" to denote that seems bizarre) or does it mean "sometimes later in this universe" (that would be the natural interpretation of "long run", but then the statement says "p(the event happens) = 0 and the event can happen", which is a contradiction).
And of all that, how does anything imply, or even relate to, the "uncountably many" answer you gave at the beginning?
From the immediate parent:
This is an assertion without explanation. I even don't understand what do you mean by "taking the universe as a QM event".
From the single sentence the OP consists of, could you quote the section where it very clearly asks for non-standard instances of the (which?) question?