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- mrhandyman, on 05/21/2009, -2/+38Going into all the other universes and killing my doubles, there by making me more powerful.
I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch! You are all my bitches! - Larssonk22, on 05/21/2009, -0/+30Good News Everyone...
- AndrewMoyer, on 05/21/2009, -0/+18What if he has a mustache and is evil?
- Astark, on 05/21/2009, -1/+18Is there a parallel universe in which there are no parallel universes? Huh? Trippy, dude...
- athrasher, on 05/21/2009, -1/+18All I know is that if I ever have a young child die, I'm kidnapping the parallel universe version to replace them.
- beesaretasty, on 05/21/2009, -0/+15To travel to them you just need to take advantage of the Einstein Rosen Bridge or something something... 2 seasons of Sliders on Hulu told me so.
- RobotBuddha, on 05/21/2009, -0/+12I'd like there to be, but I'm not ashamed to admit I'm not qualified to have an opinion. Life on other planets is a compartivley simple one. A basic understanding of genetics is enough to show it's possible. But the math to understand the probability and nature of parallel universes is pretty far beyond anything I can grasp.
- mnocket, on 05/21/2009, -0/+12You watch Fringe huh?
- malschla, on 05/21/2009, -0/+11Back to the Future does NOT use parallel universes. It is based on the premise that there is ONE timeline and ONE universe that can be altered by time travel.
Fringe is a good example of parallel universes. - PixelMagic, on 05/21/2009, -0/+9I live in the wrong universe. It sucks here.
- quarkde, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8Just like I think we're probably not the only intelligent beings in this universe I like to think that this isn't the only universe.
- facespaz, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8I'm not sure...I'm gonna flip a coin to decide if I believe all this nonsense!
- Moralogic, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8Or you could just stay at a Holiday Inn... A commercial told me so.
- sanosuke001, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7and your alternate self is also taking a stiff dick in the ass
- groo68, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7That is pretty selfish.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7I'm sure that in some other universe I came up with a very funny comment...
- yayster, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7So there are universes where the Nazi's won?
- frostbyt, on 05/21/2009, -0/+6Geez a lot of in the butt fantasy's being expressed around here.
- Larssonk22, on 05/21/2009, -0/+6That scene and the bullet time moments made that movie awesome. The story was enjoyable but somehow the movie failed as a whole. Since Hollywood is doing reboots, I would suggest they reboot The One before they even make the sequel.
- athrasher, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5I can live with that.
- ZenMojo, on 05/21/2009, -2/+7There clearly is no God because if there was we would have seen him by now.
On the other hand, parallel universes just make sense, we just have to revise our entire concept of physical reality and start over from scratch.
/s - evilregis, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5I would like to be sentient in the parallel universe where Katie Fey is my wife who only stops giving oral to beg for it in the can. That's the world I want to live in. Instead... I'm on Digg.
- BoneheadFarker, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5Is that why everyone asks me what colour the sky is in my world?
- thcobbs, on 05/21/2009, -2/+7s
- owenadam, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Did anyone watch NOVA's documentary of Hugh Everett with his son, Mark?
- MalarkeyPN, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4There are at least as many universes as there are people.
- joshthegreat200, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4You just blew my mind.
- SirFoxx, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4As soon as I find a soft spot I'm going to show William Bell just how special I am.
- diggdiggerid, on 05/21/2009, -1/+5learn physics from somewhere other than wikipedia. just because you "don't believe" one of the most verified experiments in modern science doesn't mean it's false.
regarding your first dilemma, of the INFINITE UNIVERSES you postulate, a universe-hopper would have a 1/infinity chance of going to THIS universe, which is probably why you haven't seen them. Even if they universe hop and make a grand appearance every second.....that's an infinitesimally small number of universes they will visit in their lifetimes and this is likely not one of them. - MikeFromAmerica, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Bender 1: Hey man look what I snagged from the leprachaun universe!
Bender A: Yeah, leprachaun universe is fine...if you haven't seen pirate universe! - Ragzouken, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4There'll always be another parallel athrasher to steal him from you too
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -3/+7My problem, as I've posted elsewhere, is that taken to natural extremes, given there has to be an infinite number of parallel universes, there's a parallel universe out there with beings that have the ability to hop to our universe and have decided to appear in front of me and reveal themselves. Obviously this isn't happening, therefore parallel universe theory is wrong or these universes "exist" only as mathematical equations. To anyone who says that there must therefore be some physical law that prevents universe-hopping, that would go against the whole parallel universe idea because there must, under the theory, be a universe out there with physical laws that would permit it.
Meanwhile, despite the double-slit experiment, I don't believe that particles only decide their state when they are observed. If this is the case, how do these particles know they are being observed? Do they say, "oh crap, someone's looking at me... I better make a decision?" If that's the case, it does explain politicians now that I think about it. - mhgrover, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3So the universe is essentially branching constantly? I hope they are using Git...
- ViscidGobs, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3It is believed that parallel universes exist in more than mathematical equations. So the theory is not yet complete. These parallels may bleed over into our level of existence but have very little mass. Two cases in point. Energy (electrons) flows like water, it finds areas in which to flow as when water is running down a hillside. It finds the paths of least resistance. It may be along those paths where overlap takes place and where energy leaks out. Mythologically, the world of fairie describes a land that overlaps our own. Secondly, there is the concept of ghosts. Like it or not, human history is replete with ghost stories. Ghost sitings tend to take place where a person experienced severe trauma. Perhaps it is possible that our existence creates a quantum imprint of energy on that parallel universe only to be seen where the overlap of universes takes place.
Nah, I'm just making this crap up. Digg away. - wesleyzero, on 05/21/2009, -2/+5I'm hoping that there is a black version of me in another universe and that someday we are able to connect and start a private investigation firm. Chances are, however, that he'd just kick my ass.
- BILLYBOBJOEBOB, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3BUT OH MY GOD WHAT IF IN KIDNAPPING THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE VERSION YOU UNKNOWINGLY CREATE THE SITUATION THAT YOU WERE IN OMG
- lagoamedia, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3This guys a hoot. We may have invisibility in a few decades. Sweet!
- sboan, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3physics rule.
- supermario182, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4watch what you say or the jewish internet defense force will track you down
- mhgrover, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3Easy to branch but hard to switch branches. What sort of madness is this version control?!?
To be somewhat serious, I wonder if certain aspects of version control can be applied here. Does the science allow for branches to ever merge? Conflict resolution would be a bitch but they might manifest themselves in some really cool paradoxical effects. - anthropodeus, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3@ athrasher
but can YOU? (your double?) - argusbargus, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3Deutsch argues that time travel shifts happen between different branches of reality. The mathematical breakthrough bolsters his claim that quantum theory does not forbid time travel. "It does sidestep it. You go into another universe," he said.
Must be a fan of John Titor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor - pln2bz, on 05/21/2009, -2/+5Wow, guys, this article is an amazing turd. I realize that people enjoy the concept of science fiction becoming reality, but if you care about science, that means not exemplifying preferences for our theories to take hold. Science tells US what reality is; we don't make movies and then decide that we like those ideas enough to admit them into the world of science. The only reason that this article was submitted to Digg is because it is sensational. In the world of news, speculative and sensational are good. In the world of science, the laboratory usually kills off ideas that are speculative and sensational.
Let's consider a small section of this piece of work ...
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The existence of such a parallel universe "does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite and rather uniformly filled with matter as indicated by recent astronomical observations," Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts concluded in a study of parallel universes published by Cambridge University.
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We must give the author credit where credit is due. He rightly suggests that modern physics is a bit speculative. However, if his purpose is to suggest that this speculation is any less speculative, then he is misleading you.
Space is not exactly "uniformly" filled with matter. This is a popular misnomer. On the interstellar, intergalactic, galactic and supergalactic scales, we observe matter to exist within filaments. This is very important because the visible matter in space is 99% matter in the plasma state, and we know from observations of plasmas within the laboratory that plasmas will naturally tend to form filaments. In fact, in the laboratory, these plasma filaments are called Birkeland Currents, and they are electrical transmission lines that extend the electrical force in an unlimited manner throughout the cosmos.
Now, a person can point to the COBE or WMAP and try to argue that this demonstrates that space is uniformly filled with matter even though EVERY single other map ever created on these large scales of the universe demonstrates filamentation. But, these CMB maps are still in the process of increasing in accuracy even as we speak.
It's easy for us to not realize that the largest structures of the universe are filamentary because we exist within a plasma cell (the heliosphere). And it is these plasma cells which are connected by the plasma filaments. All of this is incredibly important because if we focus entirely upon mathematics, to the exclusion of laboratory experimentation with the universe's fundamental state of matter, then that will actually inspire us to invent increasingly creative solutions to our observations -- like alternative dimensions. But, Aristotle's empirical method remain the basis for all of the technology that surrounds us today. Plato's deductive approach lost. Astrophysicists have not been exactly truthful with themselves on this point.
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Mathematician Hugh Everett published landmark paper in 1957 while still a graduate student at Princeton University. In this paper he showed how quantum theory predicts that a single classical reality will gradually split into separate, but simultaneously existing realms.
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The key here is the word "mathematician". Mathematicians do not create products. Engineers and peopl who toil away in laboratories create products, many times completely by accident and without any mathematical models whatsoever. Quantum mechanics is an attempt to fit mathematical formulas to what we observe on the smallest scales. What's important to realize is that quantum mechanics is truly pushing the limits of our technology's ability to observe. We should not assume, therefore, that we are seeing everything that we need to be seeing in order to even draw conclusions. Also, quantum mechanics still treats particles as point sources -- which is a fictitious mathematical entity. Beware of mathematicians treating mathematical entities as though they are real. It is a very common mistake that you will see made throughout our modern physics disciplines.
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"This is simply a way of trusting strictly the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics," says Barrau. "The worlds are not spatially separated, but exist as kinds of 'parallel' universes."
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This is why mathematicians are sneaky. They would prefer that the equations that we use to describe nature are inviolable -- at least until we discover that they are wrong and then change the equations, right? These equations are nothing more than ad hoc models. Nature doesn't care what the equations predict because there are physical reasons for why those equations tend to work.
Many people prefer only a superficial dose of science -- and the first thing to go, typically, is skepticism and criticism (the discussion). This oftentimes leads to the erroneous conclusion that there are no criticisms. And all of that suggests that the peer review system is somehow perfect. The problem is that peer review is really an organization of humans. And when the science is largely interpretive and deductive (rather than empirical), there is incredible room for error.
Astrophysics and quantum mechanics will in the long run be looked at as a pretty poor first attempt at understanding our surroundings. Eventually, the public will come to realize that space is largely matter in the plasma state. And with that realization will come the realization that the filaments in space are not there by accident. Those structures indicate a specific functionality and even a specific cosmology. And all of this talk about multiverses is the result of IGNORING the behavior of plasmas within the laboratory. - Mihey, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2Technology. Nazis wouldn't have had a cold war nor competition, so they wouldn't feel the need to develop their technology at the pace our world encountered.
- falconear, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Actually, those are all true, according to the theory. Every possibility that COULD happen, DOES happen.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Because everyone is wrong when they say there is in infinite number of parallel universes. There is a finite number of parallel universes, it just happens that the actual number is inconceivably large.
- freefoodisgood, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2No, just the two.
- LucifersDad, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Bastard
If parallel universes exist there is a universe where i am right know having a threesome with Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie.
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If parallel universes exist that means all our nightmares can be true, the only difference is that it is happening to someone else. So right know there is another version of me being having a threesome with Jocelyn Wildenstein and Donatella Versace with Rosie O'Donnell standing next to the bed with a strap on. Poor bastard. - BlacklabelSAR, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Yeah, this one.
- sampsonresume, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Is there a parallel universe in which there exists no parallel universes?
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