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Moloth Fateless

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: Parallel Universes! |
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paUniverse_sun14_parallel_universes&show_article=1&cat=0
| Quote: | Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as "one of the most important developments in the history of science".
The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.
In Everett's "many worlds" universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out - in its own universe.
A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless. |
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I don't buy it. That would by definition be infinity. Too many alternate outcomes. Some so close you just blinked at different times, others where Dinosaurs exist....others where life never took off.
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Maybe that chicken shit Christian deity is hiding out in another universe...maybe the prick got whacked in a motorcycle accident here. _________________ Join http://www.sefora.org/
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Moloth Fateless

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:56 am Post subject: |
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i buy it.
for every possibility per every Planck second the universe has ever existed, there is an alternate universe out there. an infinitely branching out of possible outcomes... and the farther you go from 'prime', the more fucked up things get, until the you start getting to universes who's natural laws are so unstable that they collapse.
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:05 am Post subject: |
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mEH...WHATEVER.
I'm only in a few of them, and dead in most.
Wish I could read all the alternate endings to LOTR.
ANd how many names Darth Vader REALLY has. Wow, that is infinate too.
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: |
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This would mean that an alternate UNIVERSE is out there for every possible combination of quarks out there. Or are the right here in space and time? _________________ Join http://www.sefora.org/
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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I think it's more likely he didn't carry the seven. _________________ Join http://www.sefora.org/
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RyanDzundza Sock Puppet

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: |
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i wonder how many different versions of this thread there are out there in the different universes,
i know i wouldnt be replying here in some since i only just about survived birth lol plus maybe in others i woulsnt have said anything about my birth since it would have been unspectacular and my twin would still be here, who in turn may or may not have replied here, and thats just veriations for me there must be millions of different versions of this thread
crikey im confused now lol
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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I was going to post in this thread, but then I didn't. _________________ "If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Moloth wrote: | i buy it.
for every possibility per every Planck second the universe has ever existed, there is an alternate universe out there. an infinitely branching out of possible outcomes... and the farther you go from 'prime', the more fucked up things get, until the you start getting to universes who's natural laws are so unstable that they collapse.
i LOVE this stuff. |
Give me a call when they figure out how to jump into some of these parallel universes! You could be like Dr Samuel Beckett, quantum leaping your way through history...or at the very least you could be Bill and Ted and kidnap Socrates and Billy the Kid or something. _________________
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Moloth Fateless

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | Moloth wrote: | i buy it.
for every possibility per every Planck second the universe has ever existed, there is an alternate universe out there. an infinitely branching out of possible outcomes... and the farther you go from 'prime', the more fucked up things get, until the you start getting to universes who's natural laws are so unstable that they collapse.
i LOVE this stuff. |
Give me a call when they figure out how to jump into some of these parallel universes! You could be like Dr Samuel Beckett, quantum leaping your way through history...or at the very least you could be Bill and Ted and kidnap Socrates and Billy the Kid or something. |
wrong axis, yo. time travel is dimensionally different than Tangent-hopping.
we're jumping from thread to thread.. not up and down the same thread... although, those jumps COULD create new tangents... _________________ -=The Believer is Happy; the Skeptic is Wise=-
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baddogma antitheist

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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But they ALL are a part of god's plan....right? _________________ Join http://www.sefora.org/
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Moloth Fateless

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| baddogma wrote: | | But they ALL are a part of god's plan....right? |
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FlatEarth1024 Forum Master


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| Moloth wrote: | | FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | Give me a call when they figure out how to jump into some of these parallel universes! You could be like Dr Samuel Beckett, quantum leaping your way through history...or at the very least you could be Bill and Ted and kidnap Socrates and Billy the Kid or something. |
wrong axis, yo. time travel is dimensionally different than Tangent-hopping.
we're jumping from thread to thread.. not up and down the same thread... although, those jumps COULD create new tangents... |
Well that kind of sucks. You'd be bare-assed blind then as you jumped. You wouldn't have the pre-knowledge that you would with time travel. That would put you at a severe disadvantage to those who already "existed" within your new plane. That sounds kinda scary. _________________
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Moloth Fateless

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | Moloth wrote: | | FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | Give me a call when they figure out how to jump into some of these parallel universes! You could be like Dr Samuel Beckett, quantum leaping your way through history...or at the very least you could be Bill and Ted and kidnap Socrates and Billy the Kid or something. |
wrong axis, yo. time travel is dimensionally different than Tangent-hopping.
we're jumping from thread to thread.. not up and down the same thread... although, those jumps COULD create new tangents... |
Well that kind of sucks. You'd be bare-assed blind then as you jumped. You wouldn't have the pre-knowledge that you would with time travel. That would put you at a severe disadvantage to those who already "existed" within your new plane. That sounds kinda scary. |
well, one MIGHT have the tech to have SOME idea of the basic physical/Force makeup of the next tangent. besides, if you went one at a time, adjacent to adjacent, it would take a long while to start getting to universe where the differences would even be noticeable... i mean, the closest ones (to us, called "Prime") would only be different in some insignificant, way.. like... i dunno... one extra hydrogen atom in a distant star. in all other ways it would be identical and one would never know that they we IN an alternate universe.
You'd have to get to a certain division limit to start seeing the really cool stuff... like... if the South won the Civil War... or cats evolved into the place of humans.. or the laws of physics were such that D&D style magic existed... or where Gods may roam...
Of course, you might be able to find a tangent that was identical to your own, except that it was temporally advanced OR retarded compared to your own. effectively, 'time travel'. _________________ -=The Believer is Happy; the Skeptic is Wise=-
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