This is something that I've always thought was a good possibility.
Here's an overview:
The Article wrote:Overview / Multiverses - One of the many implications of recent cosmological observations is that the concept of parallel universes is no mere metaphor. Space appears to be infinite in size. If so, then somewhere out there, everything that is possible becomes real, no matter how improbable it is. Beyond the range of our telescopes are other regions of space that are identical to ours. Those regions are a type of parallel universe. Scientists can even calculate how distant these universes are, on average. - And that is fairly solid physics. When cosmologists consider theories that are less well established, they conclude that other universes can have entirely different properties and laws of physics. The presence of those universes would explain various strange aspects of our own. It could even answer fundamental questions about the nature of time and the comprehensibility of the physical world.
Basically, there are infinative Universes with infinative possibilities. Since there are infinative, there are Universes exactly like ours, and some with minute differences.
The Article wrote:LEVEL IV MULTIVERSE The ultimate type of parallel universe opens up the full realm of possibility. Universes can differ not just in location, cosmological properties or quantum state but also in the laws of physics. Existing outside of space and time, they are almost impossible to visualize; the best one can do is to think of them abstractly, as static sculptures that represent the mathematical structure of the physical laws that govern them. For example, consider a simple universe: Earth, moon and sun, obeying Newton’s laws. To an objective observer, this universe looks like a circular ring (Earth’s orbit smeared out in time) wrapped in a braid (the moon’s orbit around Earth). Other shapes embody other laws of physics (a, b, c, d). This paradigm solves various problems concerning the foundations of physics.
Axtech wrote:Basically, there are infinative Universes with infinative possibilities. Since there are infinative, there are Universes exactly like ours, and some with minute differences.
Thoughts? Comments?
"infinative" isn't a word. "Ifinitive" refers to verbs.
"Infinte" is what you're looking for.
PS: I get pesky when discussing physics.
PPS: Just so you know, one of the ramifications of infinite universes means there are infinite universes out there EXACTLY like ours. In every way, down to where individual atoms are located. Creepy, eh?
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
--Terry Pratchett
Whoops. Didn't know about that little error. Thanks.
[now that I think about it, I did know that, but just didn't know about it right then]
Yeah, that is really creepy.
Another weird thing to think about is that in infinite universes where the laws of physics are completely different.
And that there are infinite universes where the only difference is that earth exists in a different a time period. If we could somehow find these universes and travel to them, we could essentially travel forward and backwards in time. There are also theories, though, that if something is changed in one universe, it has the potential to affect infinite universes [including ours]. So, the time travel paradoxes still apply. On that note, a good book is Michael Crichton's "Timeline". Very good book working on these theories.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
sweet blasphemy my giving tree
it hasn't rained in years
i bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
leave it to me i remain free from all the comforts of home
and where that is i'm pleased as piss to say
i'll never really know
imagine getting paid just to sit there and think up these theories? How can you be wrong?
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
my atsronomy prof wrote:The key ideas to Astronomy: 1. The universe is explicable (it can be explained). 2. The laws of physics are the same everywhere. 3. ONLY ONE UNIVERSE! 4. Observations not experiments. 5. The universe is dynamic.
That was the first five minutes of my astronomy class. (Note: the punctuation I put is the punctuation he used.)
my astro prof again wrote:There are no such thing as paralell universes. They make good science fiction, but are wrong.
Even if these parallel universes did, by some stretch of the imagination, exist we would not be able to travel there. The article claims they are beyond the range of our telescopes. The most distant thing known currently is a quasar at about 15 billion light years from us. Plus there's no way we could build a telescope that could go anywhere near the speed of light. (Btw, wormholes don't work either.)
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