what are parallel universe's and your thoughts on them?

Answer 1

I think there are def. parallel universe's and they have perhaps other living creatures or humans even on planets that could be like Earth... i think its true, exciting and i would prefer not to actually see these People or or creatures, and yeah, i would be a tad scared.

Answer 2

I don't believe in a parallel universe. He doesn't know it but "Bradley P" gave the best example of why it couldn't happen. He writes: "The implications of this are *staggering*....because the whole notion of "observer" isn't just limited to us human beings. For all we know, there could be *billions* of alternative earths where the *primates* are the ones that fly and the *birds* are the ones with opposable thumbs who use tools. Anything that *lives* can conceivably make some manner of choice." You see (and no disrespect is intended here against Bradley P but what he is saying is that its out of control with all these alternate universes. Chaos, plain and simple. And to Bradley P I say thank you. You did present a very intelligent agrument for altenate or parrallel universes. But I have to disagree not with you, but with the original author of a parrallel universe.
Parrallel universes are candy for the mind. It feeds that monster called "what if". MY universe is about 14 billion years old. Because there is no other evidence, I have to say that it ends there at the very edge of an expanding universe. An expanding universe that eventually will burn out. That the last evidence of any matter will be tale tell signs of photons where not even atoms will exist.

Answer 3

This is a topic that could be discussed for years, but I'll keep it down to a couple of concepts I've thought about. The more complex one is that every possibility that could exist does exist in another universe. If you had one less atom in your body (but everything else was exactly the same as it is in this universe) there would be a universe where that was the case.
The simpler concept is to envision our universe as a sort of bubble, while another universe (another bubble) resides next to it (parallel to it).
Either way stretches my thinking.

Answer 4

One of the most favored concepts of parallel universes is that every time each of us makes some decision another universe splits off from ours. For instance, if you come to a crossroads and decide to turn left, another universe immediately branches off in which you turn right.

The world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking thinks that parallel universes are entirely possible, and if it's good enough for him I'm sure not going to argue : )

Answer 5

There is not the slightest evidence to support the notion of parallel universes. As far as we can observe, in over 15 billion years of looking, the conditions that create a universe happened just once. It certainly does not appear to be common, and absolutely not in the volume that some writers seem to be grandly contemplating.

Of course, the idea of "parallel universes" is really just a reflection of human vanity and self-centredness. Much as religious people of old supposed that the earth obviously must be the center of the universe, so some people imagine that every act they do carries cosmic consequences, such that each and every possible step they can take must also be reflected elsewhere.

The narcissism begins to come under strain when one begins to consider that human beings are really nothing special in the universe, except in the minds of ourselves. If there is a parallel universe for every decision we don't make, ought there not also to be one for every possible place Spot the dog might bury his bone? And a host of universes for each and every cell division by every bacterium in the world.

And don't forget to multiply all of these exponentially for every planet, star, molecule, atom and quark in the universe. By the time you're done, even infinity itself is going to start getting crowded!

But not to worry. There is absolutely not the slightest scrap of evidence to support the notion. I'm highly confident that parallel universes are found only in the minds of the vain.

Answer 6

Basically, if the quantum physics and information/computation theory is to be believed here, the principle is that No Information is Ever Lost.

Meaning? For every time an observer makes a *choice*, between Yes or No, Up or Down, Red or Green or Blue....*every* outcome happens somewhere. You as an observer pick *one* outcome, but also, in a parallel universe somewhere, the local version of "you" also ends up making the *other* choices as well. *Any and all* choices that can possibly be made are made, with alternative universes sprouting up as needed to allow this to happen in a way that maintains *our* perception of cause and effect, and that allows *us* locally, here in *this* universe, to make sense of reality.

Everything happens, in other words. Everything that *can* possibly happen, does.

The implications of this are *staggering*....because the whole notion of "observer" isn't just limited to us human beings. For all we know, there could be *billions* of alternative earths where the *primates* are the ones that fly and the *birds* are the ones with opposable thumbs who use tools. Anything that *lives* can conceivably make some manner of choice.

But what I really want to know is....are these universes as *separate* and isolated from one another as they seem, or do they in fact interact? Does my behavior here in this universe, for example, have any influence on the behavior or life of "Bradley Poe of Earth-8"? Does *that* guy's behavior then influence "B-Poe of Earth-Q-Minus"? And on and on....

And....where does this all begin? Where does information originate, in the sense of computation, in the system? This *could* point up to a space that can only be described as "other" or "outside" as Stephen B. Wolfram does....or it could point to something as close to a Platonic Realm of Ideal Forms (original data) as it gets.

So what would the Platonic Ideal/Original Data version of *me* look like? Is there a whole *species* then of *me*, out there connected like the cells of a 5th-dimensional object (4 of space, one of time) in such a manner that all we see are the multitude of 3d *shadows* this being casts?

It does boggle the mind, doesn't it? ^_^

And yeah, it is weird that after all this time, that physics is catching up with the comic books, isn't it?

Thanks for your time. ^_^ Have a star!

Answer 7

Current M-theory has it that there are possibly 11 dimensions including time. We basically exist in 4 or possibly 5- who is to say that there are not universes that use different combinations of dimensions?

Answer 8

Perhaps in one of those parallel universes, it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to pluralize everyday English words.

Answer 9

I think we live in a bungled dimension where 99% of things go wrong

Somewhere out there is a place where 99% of things go right (now that stretches the imagination)

Answer 10

Hope the other versions of me, are much more successful than me and having a great time!