Parallel Universes

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  1. porkstock41

    porkstock41 Every time across from me...not there!

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  2. Logan 5

    Logan 5 Confessed gynephile Lifetime Supporter

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    Kinda like parallel parking.
     
  3. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude

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  4. Yorik99

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    Is this to do with quantum mechanics?
     
  5. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    look up the amplituhedron, its really bleeding edge.
     
  6. tomwil

    tomwil Members

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    I was told to never call a crazy person crazy, so I won't address some of the tomfoolery in this thread.
    Now, let's discuss science. In Quantum Physics it is possible for a particle to exist in two separate spaces at the same time. Therefore, in theory it would be possible for two universes or multiple universes to exist in separate spaces at the same time. This is strictly theoretical and has nothing to do with God or consciousness.
     
  7. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    The mathematics are inadequate , as poor as pie .
     
  8. Sleeping Caterpillar

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    I always wondered what a parallel universe would be of. Would it be the change of scientific laws? Would they be the same laws with new life forms. Would it be very similar but with new life choices? Maybe even every and all
     
  9. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    i think the most popular opinion is that in a multiverse with an infinite number of "universes" many would contain different laws of physics and would be much different than our own, but since there would be infinitely many universes, a possibly infinite number of them would be very close to our own, just slightly different in some way, such as historical events having a different outcome, and quite possibly some (many?) that are *just* like ours.
     
  10. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    Infinitely many universes ? Infinity Jo counts to one and there-after is hopelessly inane .
    Recommendation : count to one and take an infinite breath .
     
  11. Moonglow181

    Moonglow181 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Well, everything is infinite including the possibilites.
     
  12. Moonglow181

    Moonglow181 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I just thought off of a spin off quote....

    They say

    "The mind is a beautiful thing not to waste...."

    I say:

    The mind is a beautiful thing not to cage....
     
  13. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    I can only think of one improbablity at a time .
     
  14. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    prove it
     
  15. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    My understanding is that string theory has recently been disproven by mathematics and new observations of the universe.

    Whether that means parallel universes are not possible, I'm not sure.

    And didn't Hawking recently say time travel is impossible?

    Why else is Sheldon Cooper in such a funk?

    Doesn't everyone watch Big Bang Theory?

    That's where I get all my quantum physics news!
     
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  16. Moonglow181

    Moonglow181 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Yeah, but mathematics can not be applied to everything...as in the case of sub atomical particles...the very smallest matter there is...
     
  17. themnax

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    essentially, well my understanding anyway, is that it is a thought experiment that resolves certain paradoxes in quantum theory, and that there is no overwhelmingly strong evidence against it.
     
  18. Moonglow181

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    Do thoughts carry any real weight? No. They are not matter,, as we know it.
    Nor would a soul be, so it would not follow any laws that we know of....as you cannot measure either.
     
  19. Moonglow181

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    So with that in mind, parallel universes could exist.
     
  20. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    could very well. i see no real objection to the possibility.

    i had a friend once who tried to make such an objection, but he tried to make it on religious rather then scientific grounds, and i couldn't make sense of his objection on either.

    to whatever extent i'm permitted to simply believe, yes i believe they exist. but then someone else could just as much believe that they don't.

    a more interesting question would be what they are. what makes another universe not merely an extention of the one in which we are physically surrounded.

    well again i have to use the dodge of belief, but my understanding is that the way our universe works at least partially results from the way it came into existence, and that therefor, a differnt roll of the dice, in the first few microseconds of formation, would result in a universe who's very physical laws themselves, would very from our own. so then you have different quantum univereses, each a little different from the next, but not as different as those 'further/more layers, away'
     

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