2007-02-03 01:51:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
At least half of what I'm gonna say is hogwash. But it's a story that I like, so I'm not letting the facts get in the way of that...
Schrodinger's cat - you'll know about that one: it's in a box and you don't know if it's alive or dead. There's a finite probability of either. Open the box, and you'll see which state it's in. Seems simple, but Schrodinger's point is that before you look in the box, the cat is BOTH alive AND dead, and it is your act of observing it that makes it be one and not the other.
Parallel universes... not parallel at all; they are all overlapping. We know one universe, because we understand the dimensions of time and space and can move along those axes. To move to a parallel universe, you would move along the probability axis.
So while we do not observe something, all states exist, all universes are together as one. The minute we observe it, we fix our position in probability space and all other possible universes are closed off to us for ever. And this is going on continuously. It is our very consciousness, the fact that we are alive, that gives us the universe that we know.
In other words, parallel universes are right where you are, all the time, but you plot a path through just one, and in each conscious thought you have, close off infinite others.
Like I said, hogwash. Truth is I'm not good enough at maths to answer properly. But I reckon you would LOVE the His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights/Golden Compass) - it's full of this stuff, put much better than I ever could - supposed to be kids' books but they're not, really.
PS I like Stewie's answer a lot.
2007-02-04 04:40:44 · answer #1 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If parallel universes are not separated by space then mid town is it.
2007-02-03 10:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6.75 miles north. look for a street thta intersects with itself (like kramer found on seinfeld that one time). thats the nexus of the universe. stand on that spot, spin in circles, drink pop rox and coke till you pass out. you'll wake up on the other side. everyone wil have a goatee now, other than the ppl you knew who had them, those ppl wont have one now.
2007-02-03 10:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
3.1452 seconds
2007-02-03 15:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by Lew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋