-- Posted by TheIntellect at 10:38 pm on Feb. 17, 2008 This concept is so hard to get your head around. There's a really good BBC segment on it on youtube "There could be a universe where Al Gore is President and Elvis is still alive" -- HOW CRAZY IS THAT? http://youtube.com/watch?v=2_vpEyE6rug -------------------------------- "There is no one reality.  Each of us lives in a separate universe.  That's not speaking metaphorically.  This is the hypothesis of the stark nature of reality suggested by recent developments in quantum physics.  Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective.  Consciousness is the only reality." -------------------------------- As unsettling as it may sound, Everett's Many-Worlds interpretation has implications beyond the quantum level. If an action has more than one possible outcome, then -- if Everett's theory is correct -- the universe splits when that action is taken. This holds true even when a person chooses not to take an action. This means that if you have ever found yourself in a situation where death was a possible outcome, then in a universe parallel to ours, you are dead. This is just one reason that some find the Many-Worlds interpretation disturbing. Another disturbing aspect of the Many-Worlds interpretation is that it undermines our concept of time as linear. Imagine a time line showing the history of the Vietnam War. Rather than a straight line showing noteworthy events progressing onward, a time line based on the Many-Worlds interpretation would show each possible outcome of each action taken. From there, each possible outcome of the actions taken (as a result of the original outcome) would be further chronicled. http://science.howstuffworks.com/parallel-universe1.htm ------------------------------ This freaks me out. Yet I hope it's true. It's so cool to think about. Mind blowing even. Which begs the question, what happens to us when we die? surely something has to, if there's technically many versions of us in different universes? I'm lost in trying to even think about that, let a lone the whole concept. This concept makes me so frustrated lol. It simply does my head in. Any thoughts? Any one else interested? -- Posted by Graustein at 10:40 pm on Feb. 17, 2008 It's not really that hard a concept for me to grasp, to be honest. It's interesting and the implications can be mind-boggling, but it doesn't seem that complicated to me. Although... if there's an alternate universe for every possibility, does that mean there's one in which you never die? Then... what would you be? hmm... I'm probably not thinking far enough into this to see the complete scope. -- Posted by TechnoShark at 10:41 pm on Feb. 17, 2008 Wow, that is mind-blowing. It's so intense... just... wow. So that means that there are more parallel universes than anyone could possibly imagine. Billions of decisions with multiple possible outcomes occur everyday. That is just insane. -- Posted by Bacon at 10:44 pm on Feb. 17, 2008 Its not a terribly difficult concept to grasp.. Until you start to wonder, how are these Universes connected? How is it even possible that multiple universes exist? And wouldn't that mean that Universes are finite? -- Posted by TheIntellect at 10:53 pm on Feb. 17, 2008 What I find mind blowing is that I exist in another universe somewhere. You also exist in another universe somewhere. That is what I find hard to fathom. And that the same events have occurred just with different outcomes. It's mind blowing because it shakes up what we all have thought reality was. Ironically -- if this theory is true -- we're closer to understanding our existence, yet  even further away -- this opens up so many more questions. And how's does this even work? If the events are the same (Wars, etc) but with different outcomes -- well, that would produce different events then too, right? -- Germany winning WWII would mean the year 2008 would be much different then as we know it. Which means another universe branches off of the one where the Germans win WWII with that worlds events differing....essentially, there would be an infinite amount of universes with different possibilities for similar AND different events to our own.... ^^ I guess that's what Bacon was getting at.... -- Posted by medjai at 10:23 am on Feb. 18, 2008 Well I hope I'm in the universe where like the best possible shit happens to me I'll be pissed if some other me is better off. Fuck you, other me. -- Posted by obvious child at 5:03 pm on Feb. 26, 2008 I don't see what is so hard to understand about the multiverse theory. Every possibility that can happen has happened and plays out in its own universe. What's so mind blowing about it? -- Posted by rcduggan at 6:31 pm on Feb. 26, 2008 If the theory is true, then there is an infinite amount of alternate universe, an amount entirely incomprehensible to our minds. Every single action with every single outcome with every single variant. So for any action you could think of, there are tens of millions of alternate universe, and another ten million spawned from each of those, ad infinitum. -- Posted by allsmiles at 9:57 am on Feb. 27, 2008 If that's the case, I'm very pissed off with the universe I live in. I got a shitty deal, and I'll kill the other me's which have forced me here if I get the opportunity to. -- Posted by EdgyVeggie at 9:43 am on Feb. 29, 2008 Personally, I'm pretty much a believer. But we have to consider the fact that even though humans are so far evolved, there is a surplus of things we have not discovered and/or will never know. But the whole ideas of deja vu, premonitions, past lives... it seems like they can't be around for nothing. Maybe our past lives are actually other lives in parallel universes happening right now.