is it true that in this world, there is actually someone who looks exactly like you???
and if there is, is there any way we can find the other person?
2007-09-22 02:26:42 · 18 answers · asked by Question_raider 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
Can't the person be actually a real life person,with emotions and stuff....and not a ghost(doppler smthing)?
2007-09-23 02:25:28 · update #1
yes it is possible for that to happen,and now with "cloning"
it is more possible than ever...
2007-09-24 14:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by kokopelli 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The odds are very good that we all have at least one 'twin'. There are just so many people in the world and only so many combinations of facial features, arms lengths, skin colours, eye colou, etc. that people can have.
The thing is, this double would think, speak and act nothing like you do ...it would be a different person, but just look like you.
As far as finding that 'twin' ...you could search the rest of your life and probably never find her. Too many people, too little time.
2007-09-23 23:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by WARREN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forensic scientists (using photos) would likely measure small differences between two subjects such as length of earlobe or slant of forehead to prove two people are not identical. However many individuals look 'exactly' like celebrities and are discovered by friends who notice the resemblance. Of course only identical twins have identical DNA (if samples are available).
2007-09-22 10:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by Kes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at people,you can see similarities in all of us.You can recognize features unique to different parts of the world.With all the mixing people are more varied then ever.Still,there are a limited number of traits to be spread around.If you notice you can categorize.A so-called beauty can share the same traits with someone considered unattractive.An Example look at the acting Swayze brothers.The answer to the question is no,there are no Doppelgangers.However there are many others who will look like you,but different.It's not paranormal it's genetic.After all if you go back far enough we're all cousins.
2007-09-22 09:44:05 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. NG 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont know about exactly like you, however, like the yahoo avatars, there is really a limited number of variances in a persons face, so chances are there are a few people who will look real close to you.
I have a second cousin with the same name as me that looks almost exactly like me. Luckily we live on the opposide sides of the country.
2007-09-22 09:50:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
May be "cloning" existed from the begining of human race- a variant for reserves of successful genetic combinations-some scientists say there is a bank for DNA -under Earth or in the atmosphere and this is prepared in case of a catastrophe on Planet all DNA to be evacuated somewhere.
2007-09-29 05:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by IndrisOK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is
genetics are like a giant RUBIK's cube, there are millions of variations of gene's which make up a person and like a RUBIK's cube the more you twist the cube (as in creating a family tree) the more variations there are. However if you keep twisting millions of times you are bound to get back to the finished cube every now and again. You then have your 'twin'
2007-09-23 08:41:28 · answer #7 · answered by STEPHEN H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You, being female can't find them, according to Otto;
Otto Weininger
In his philosophical text entitled Sex and Character, philosopher Otto Weininger writes that: "Or again, consider this: no animal is made afraid by seeing its reflection in a glass, whilst there is no man who could spend his life in a room surrounded with mirrors. Can this fear, the fear of the doppelgänger, (it is notable that women are devoid of this fear; female doppelgängers are not heard of) be explained on Darwinian principles? The word doppelgänger has only to be mentioned to raise a deep dread in the mind of any man. Empirical psychology cannot explain this; it reaches the depths" (Second part: Chapter IX).
No comfort to us men though is it ?
2007-09-23 04:46:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about everyone else, but when I was 22 years old I was in a bar when my friends noticed someone who looked just like me. When they pointed him out to me I was stunned...I thought I was looking in a mirror. This guy could have been a clone or an identical twin. It was very freaky to me and my friends.
2007-09-27 06:53:18 · answer #9 · answered by Tripod T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The term for them is Doppleganger.
I had one in the same city as I grew up in. He even had the same first name. I never met him but I would have liked to punch his lights out for the trouble he caused me.
2007-09-22 09:36:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Omigosh I think so. Because when I was in India, there was this chick in a milk ad, and she looked EXACTLY like me! She was like my long lost twin!
2007-09-22 09:32:20 · answer #11 · answered by . 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋