Alternate Realities?

Question

So after the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" it got me thinking about that one thing where if you don't look at an object, the object could be in an infinite of different places. (I'm pretty sure there's a name for that theory)

Anyway, so if I have a friend place a ball somewhere behind me, and before I turn around, the ball could be anyway behind me. The only one that would know is him. Isn't that saying him and I are in "alternate realities"? His is the one with the ball, and mine is the one without, and only when I turn around, his reality and my reality combines with other people's reality and together forms what is everything essentially. I hope I'm making sense. :P

Answer 1

Quantum physics or quantum mechanics... Interesting question but I remember the movie making the point that all is one (and one for all) =)

Check out the book by that indian guy Goswami entitled The Self Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates The Material World... It's a real eye-opener

Answer 2

You are accurately relating the Quantum Mechanical view of things.

In the early days if sub-atomic research, scientists realized the particles were so small, it was impossible to measure them without disturbing them. Picture a blind man trying to find ping-pong balls with a heavy cane. What quickly developed was mathematics of probabilities. Where’s the electron? Well, there’s a 50 % chance it’s over there.

Over time the Quantum Mechanics started to view probabilities as reality. They would say the electron is 50% here. If you did a test that proved the electron was here, the Quantum guy would say: “Oh, you’ve collapsed 50% hereness into 100%.

Many scientists, including Einstein, thought this was absurd. Schrödinger, baffeled by this notion, posed a question to the Quantum Scientists. He asked: If an atom has a 50% chance of decaying in 1 hour, and we put a cat in a closed box with a machine that will kill it if the decay is detected, at the end of the hour is the cat 50% dead?


“YES!” cried the Quantum guys, “and the reality of cat deadness will not collapse into 0 or 100% until you open the box” . The story of Schrödinger’s Cat is now used to teach Quantum Mechanics, but it’s intent was to pevent Quantum scientists from believing the absurdities you encountered in “What the Bleep Do We Know!?"

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Answer 3

You are acting under the assumption that you and your friend are completely separate, in terms of both mind and body. If you look at matter on a very minute scale, you will find that the borders between objects disappear. Not only do electrons hop back and forth (this is the principle electron microscopes work under; electron-tunneling), but all matter has a wave-form, just like light, although it is much much more minute.

But, ultimately, who knows! Maybe you're right, and our minds are separate enough to explore separate realities and recombine....although however separate you want to make it, it's still apart of the same object; the multiverse!

Answer 4

Had you ever thought about while your friend has put the ball behind you, you were there all the time, and just because you were not looking its, it doesn't mean that you live in a reality and your friend in another one... I say it because, thinking in a blind person, in what reality does he live? Alternate realities there are, but its system is complexer than this.

Answer 5

exchange realities is an exciting theory and has been theorized approximately for hundreds of years. yet there is not any information and modern-day analyze have indicated that each and every person such phenomenons happen in our brains and are not a results of something like exchange realities. the multiverse hypothesis, is comparatively new, and remains no longer an customary theory by utilising any ability. It additionally does not unavoidably point out that there could be diverse universes something like our very own or that persons could inhabit them, somewhat no longer human beings by some ability concerning us. .