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Is it possible that in alternate/paralell universes, different law of physics apply in such a way that math is even different.

For example, kicking a football in this universe propells it forward.
In the other universe, it turns inside-out.

In this universe 1+1=2
In the other universe 1+1=3

But if 1+1=3, then if it is logical to get from this universe to the other by going direction A, going the reverse direction afterwould would not get us back to this universe.

Indeed logic may be such that the concept its self of being able to do so may be redundent.
Indeed logic it's self may be redundent.
If so, what would replace it, or would it matter if there is no logic to make it matter?

If it doesn't, they how do we know existance it's self is even relavent. It may be something else altogether.

Is this how confusing alternate realities could be?

2007-02-18 04:05:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

3 answers

I hear you!
In a flat universe where objects move in 2d (flat geometrical directions) mathematicians could apply the number pie to measure the circumference of a circle.

Even if that flat universe was wrapped on itself like a cylinder, they would not be able to apply pie to measure a volume, because no one in that flat universe would know what up and down is!

We live in a 3d space 1d time universe, (4d total) we can move in 3d and apply pie to measure flat circles and bubbles or all kind of volumes!

The arrow of time in our universe goes only in one direction, past to future (even though time is not exactly linear).

Perhaps in some other dimension with 4d space the arrow of time would bend, in the sense that objects would move in 2 directions at the same time! Sounds weird but it does apply to photons and electrons! (Look up Young's experiment to find out more)

So in a way you might be right in another universe 1+1 might be 3!

2007-02-18 05:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo! 5 · 0 0

i wonder a lot about exactly what u wonder
indeed there can b anything...anything
u r ryt
the laws of physics that r in this universe could b something else in the other
there can b alternate realities, alternate universes....totally different frm what v think or expect to b. A very different existence
but in that case even logic will not work
bcoz the logic v apply in this universe would not work in the other
its all puzzling....so lets live in our universe and not b illogical [ since what is logical here may b illogical in the alternate universe]

2007-02-18 05:25:00 · answer #2 · answered by Deranged Soul.. 2 · 0 0

We can exist in 3 dimensions, length, width, depth. But it is now thought that there are 11 dimensions. 1 is time/space, 1 is believed to have most of the anti-matter, 1 is thought to have most of the gravity. Our laws of mathematics work well in our dimensions, but they probably would break down in other dimensions. Not even logic would hold up. The 4th dimension is already pretty abstract. For example, the center of the universe can only be seen from the 4th dimension. In our 3 dimensional world, the center of the universe IS the universe. It just gets more complicated from there on.

2007-02-18 04:55:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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