Having asked many people if they can accept that there is more than one universe the answer is usually not only severe scepticism but like what you would expect superstitious people to behave when told the earth was round. You have no trouble believing this universe so why is it so hard to believe that there are virtually an infinite number of them? Its not voodoo so whats the problem? Not alternate realities just universes identical to this down to the last atom.
2006-08-15 23:09:21 · 8 answers · asked by ByeBuyamericanPi 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
why do you find it difficult to believe that there is a leprechaun in my pajamas?
2006-08-15 23:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Luis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many well respected physicists who study cosmology, such as Steven Hawking, do seriously entertain the hypothesis that there are multiple universes that form a vast, perhaps infinite, "landscape" of possibilities. It's the result of educated guesses into the underlying principles of what generated the Big Bang, and forms the basis for the Weak Anthropic Principle to explain why ours is so well suited for life despite the fact that the a priori probability (picked out at random) that any one universe can evolve life is miniscule. Many other equally well respected physicists poo poo the whole idea by saying that it's not science because other universes are unobservable since, being a disjoint spacetime continuum, information (which travels through space) cannot pass from one to another. To such empiricists, scientific propositions should be confined to those which can be verified by experiment. The best that one could come up with is a theory of everything which strongly suggests that our own big bang could not have been a unique event. We're still waiting for that.
2006-08-16 03:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perception is complicated. People see the world a certain way, and they become "conditioned" to behave as if the universe were static. It's important to realize that we have been CONDITIONED. Children have not become conditioned, and therefore have the highest level of creativity, imagination, and have the innate ability to absorb new ideas much easier then adults.
We live in a dynamic world, where we are constantly finding new dynamic rules. You're a person with an open mind. A lot of people (although they may say otherwise) are very closed off from the ideas beyond what they deem "reality".
They are who they are. Let them think what they want. Believe in yourself.
2006-08-15 23:24:14 · answer #3 · answered by Henry L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are no hints that another universe exists. Nothing points to it, and no observed phenomenon requires a parallel universe to explain it.
If there was another identical universe, then what? If it is identical, then everything that is happening here is happening there at the same time. Makes no difference.
There could be one, and there could not be one, and there is now way to know, no way at all.
2006-08-15 23:24:31 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in a Galaxy, and there may be many galaxies.
The universe is the complete collection of all the galaxies.
One universe encompasses all.
2006-08-15 23:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Brenmore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well most people say that iit is not possible because there is rarely and newws about the subject plus there has been no one there 2 c if they are correct or not
2006-08-15 23:14:33 · answer #6 · answered by buddhababy92 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly cannot say for sure your not right......can you give 1 iota
of proof that your hypothesis in grounded in some kind of tangable
evidence,to support you?
2006-08-16 06:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by OldGeezer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'cause nobody can prove the opposite
2006-08-16 03:18:41 · answer #8 · answered by orpheas k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋