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- Napoleone, on 12/31/2007, -7/+40I hope I don't get made fun of for this, but it strikes me that if parallel Universes exist (I'm convinced they do, for various reasons), they must be infinite in number. In which case every imaginable placement of, let's say atoms, must take place.
If that is true, then all sorts of fantastic worlds must exist. Including realities in which Jesus, Buddha, Hercules and their like, are actually real in the way humans have historically conceived of them.
Then again, it may be that there's a constant in the way nature unfolds across the Multiverse. But somehow I doubt that. - sodoh, on 12/31/2007, -1/+29Everyone knows there are only two universes. This one and the other where the only difference is everyone wears cowboy hats.
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -1/+16If I ever cross into your parallel universe, I will kick your ass!
- MattBlackCat, on 12/31/2007, -2/+17I am glad I live in 'Universe A' :-)
- Napoleone, on 12/31/2007, -4/+18Or you were murdered by Snowhite and raped by rabbits. The possibilities are infinitely good and bad.
- Spectre74, on 12/31/2007, -0/+12If I ever find it I better look out because I'm gonna kill me and take over.
- robberry, on 12/31/2007, -0/+11"In that case, on some planet in one of these universes, there are multi-colored elephants which give birth to 2 headed humans with 3 balloons coming out their ass at birth."
Actually, that planet exists in our universe. We just call it Michigan. - STKD, on 12/31/2007, -1/+12Really? Because we haven't heard much from him of late. By "of late" I of course mean for a good few thousand years now.
- alvinrod, on 12/31/2007, -2/+12Call me as soon as someone figures out how to move between these universes.
I'm ditching my current existence for one where I'm wealthy and have scantly clad, beautiful women crawling all over me. - sodoh, on 12/31/2007, -0/+10Actually google "John Titor". Claimed to be a time traveler. Apprantly when he time travelled only the starting point was his universe and when he went back in time he entered another universe that was different but would eventually meet his starting point universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor - sriel, on 12/31/2007, -1/+11from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle:
"Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly
Man got to sit and wonder 'Why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand." - muhadeeb, on 12/31/2007, -1/+10typical type "A" behavoir
- luet, on 12/31/2007, -0/+9The problem with alternate realities is that every single existence converges, almost expectedly, on 4chan.
- spyd3rweb, on 12/31/2007, -0/+9My sense of humor was the half that died.
- HanseTheInsane, on 12/31/2007, -1/+10 In such Universe's, I never became married or had children. *I enjoyed the many idea's that this gives, such as a universise where zombies are real or that I am the President, but find the theory and math well beyond me.
- SSUK, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8Why aren't you funny?
- taquitohater, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8Am I the only one who read "goatees" as "goatses?"
- sodoh, on 12/31/2007, -1/+9Playing with infinity is fun! :)
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8In how many universes is the cake real?!? Is the amount of said theoretical cakes finite or infinite in number?
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8Nah, I came up with the idea of committing parallel-me-icide because I hate the idea of a bunch of parallel mes running around. It's easy - I just think of a way to kill myself, and then I don't do it. Because there are an infinite number of universes, there must be one in which I go through with it.
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -9/+17Actually there are differing degrees of infinity. For example there are all possible real numbers between 0 and 1, while at the same time there is the infinite range of possible integers. So even if the universe is infinite it does not necessarily mean there are places or times where Jesus and Buddha existed. Thus skepticism wins again.
More succinctly, you FAIL at infinite possibilities. - LeeSoong, on 12/31/2007, -1/+9I'm posting from another 'verse - believe it or not, your Digg comment system is way better than ours !
- Biks, on 12/31/2007, -2/+10Are we saying that every atom is the center of it's own parallel universe, or say, every electron or quark is the center of it's own parallel universe? What delineates the division of a parallel universe? This seems sort of of cop out. Now we're back to the good ol' infinite regression. It's turtles all the way down!
- ileftfark, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7"Well, we'll be 'Universe 1' then".
"I like you, Evil Bender" - TripcodeMel, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7Make sure you look out for the universes where he knows you're coming for him.
- spyd3rweb, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7I am a holy half-dead who has seen the Underverse, and returned with powers you can't imagine, ask me anything.
- SonicRift, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7Everyone knows there are only 52 Earths in the multiverse...
- digitalb0y, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5Now like my granny used to say back in her tall paper shack on Montego Bay "If you want a box hurled into the sun, you got to do it yourself!"
- itsHef, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5I appreciate that reference
- jgzman, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5We can't prove they follow the laws of physics. It is very probable that they do, but they might not. Pi is a universal constant, not a realities constant. Gravity might be weaker or stronger. Friction might behave oddly. Heck, Anti-matter might have won out over matter.
- Spectre74, on 12/31/2007, -5/+10I agree. Interesting point. If it's infinite, it must exist....somewhere. The "gods" need a way to influence other universes in a way that violates scientific laws and theories as I understand them though, in order to truly have performed miracles and still be doing it. Make fun of me for this? Oh, and doppelgangers are a creepy thought.
- dwright99, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5If I ever cross into another parallel universe, I'll kick MY ass.
- gi0rgi0s, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6It's important to remember that this is all just conjecture at this point. There's no hard evidence.
- iamafatguy, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6So it's our fault? (those that are unable to hear)
I don't buy it. That's blaming the "victim". Surely something that is "all matter, energy and consciousness" could find a better way to communicate with those that may be "hard of hearing." If not, that's just being mean. - inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5Great article with very mind opening things to at least ponder.
- hadak, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5So, let me get this straight. I'm supposed to believe an article about multiple (possibly infinite) universes from...the inquirer? Pass.
- LucasVB, on 12/31/2007, -2/+7> I'm convinced they do, for various reasons
I'd like to know what those are. - nebion, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5That seems observationally quite unlikely, as your interpretation would require that all possible universes exist - therefore also every senseless possibility exists, including those whose intelligent inhabitants would observe the nonsensical portions of their universe...
Since most possible existences aren't consistent, we would be likely to exist in an extremely inconsistent universe - which does not seem to correspond with our observations. Even if a lot of things are weird, everything seems to operate in a consistent fashion.
On the other hand, it may be that every *consistent* possibility is realized (of which there may also be infinite variations - infinity does not imply every possibility), but that would not include most human fantasy in any way meaningful to us, as it tends to be pretty much inevitably inconsistent. - chaosium, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6"Well,
since all matter, energy and consciousness is the essence of the Divine Will,
god is talking to people every day - unfortunately not everybody is listening...
"
I'm sorry, but my ears and other sensory organs aren't intelligently designed to pick up "all matter, energy and consciousness". If God wanted to communicate with humans, he would be speaking more directly. It's otherwise indistinguishable from all other interstellar and earthly background noise. - yournamehere, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4the cake is a constant lie
- sodoh, on 12/31/2007, -1/+5Well if they don't then John Titor could of never time travelled back to warn us about the impending disaster to the world. :)
- SlyMm, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Are you into advanced maths, or did ya watch "dangerous knowledge"? I watched that doc on Google vids a week ago and it was cool... :)
- falstaff, on 12/31/2007, -2/+6Seconded. Presumably the laws of physics are similar across all the multiverse. Unfortunately, that means still no people who shoot lasers from their eyes, have the natural ability to fly, or any other super-hero power, including various messiah/savior figures from religion, without the physics-bending power of divine intervention. An infinite placement of atoms doesn't create magic.
- ricree, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4"If it's infinite, it must exist....somewhere. "
That's really not true. Just because something is infinite does not mean that every thing imaginable exists inside of it. There are many, many ways for something to be infinite. For example, consider two different sets that have an infinite number of members. Let's say that the first is the set of all even integers, and the second is all real numbers between .1 and .9. While both sets are infinite, there is no overlap between the two. Just because something is infinite does not mean that it contains any given element.
Now, I don't know how these models work, so I don't know what the difference between these worlds would be, so as an example let's just say that it would manifest as differences in the constants of the universe. For example, let's say that the gravitational constant was different in every universe. In most of these, the universe would be very inhospitable to matter as we know it, much less life. Too much gravity and everything would just crunch back together, but too little and we would not see structures like stars and galaxies that are necessary to produce life. So while there would be an infinite number of universes, it would be a mistake to say that some particular imaginable world must exist in there somewhere. - mlvassallo, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4At least it isn't about religion. Good thing we have disproved that garbage.
- itsHef, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4I wonder if my parallel counterpart will either be evil or just a different color scheme.
All jokes aside, this is very interesting. - spickly, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4what about the mongooses? the fighting mongooses
- Napoleone, on 12/31/2007, -1/+5Those "gods" might be perceived as such, but they'd obviously only be masters of their particular universes.
This is a very troubling theory. - robberry, on 12/31/2007, -2/+6No, there's this one, and the mirror universe where everybody wears goatees. Geez, didn't you ever watch Star Trek?
- Spectre74, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Crap. I'm a smart bastard.
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