A theory on parallel Universes. What do you think???

Question

This came to me while I was watching a documentary on Parallel universes and no matter how I think about it it just seems to work.
This universe that we are in now started from a single atom according to the big bang theory but i suggest that the atom didn`t explode but paralleled itself if you know what I mean. Whenever I see or read something on Parallel universes, people talk about the descisions we make and how the universe is split by those descisions but what if the whole universe is made up of parallel universes on a quantum level. What if every atom in the universe today is just Infinate parallels of that first atom. The same atom everywhere at the same time with every descision of that atom played out in this universe.
Just a theory but I think I will try to expand it in the coming weeks.

Answer 1

anything is possible, but have you tough about the aging process of your theory. You need to figure out if as time passes the atom reduces in energy or increases also if it does what of the previous and next level of energy how would it maintain all of its energy at a specific time and what if in parallel it's copy died out or lost energy or gained energy. How will it in quantum react to the fact that no two can have the same amount of energy in the same place. I would like to hear about it keep posting and ill check it out. you can even start your own free website at 100free.com or at bravehost.com about it so everyone can give you feed back.

Answer 2

The universe did not start out from an atom but from a singularity. Atoms are made up out of smaller particles (electrons, neutrons, protons) which are made out of even smaller particles. The most recent theories conclude that the smallest particles are called "strings" which vibrate in different frequencies. So there couldn't have been a "first atom" since there were no atoms before the big bang.

Before the big bang, there was no space or rather all dimensions were curled up including time, space which are all different forms of the same principle. During the big bang the universe "uncurled" creating the 4 dimensions as it went. Some scientists suggest there are many more dimensions, as much as 12 of which 8 are still curled up). The uncurling unleashed tremendous amounts of energy which turned into matter following Einsteins relativity theorie, which modified for this case is M=E/C2 or mass equals energy divided by the speed of light squared. If the first singularity "paralleled" itself like you suggest the mass that now forms the planets, moons, stars etc. would never have formed.

Answer 3

Yes fine, except that the universe did not start from "a single atom" - atoms were created in the moments after the big bang and weren't the first things to exist.

It was a singularity that "exploded" not an atom.

But, in essence, your theory is not remotely original, I'm afraid. Many scientists believe that our universe exists as part of a larger "multi-verse", and that if there are infinite other universes then you, I and everything else will be replicated elsewhere (an infinite number of times).

There is another theory (different but confused by many people) that reality is not quite what it seems - that each and every event has an infinite number of outcomes, all of which happen but only one of which is perceived by us.

This effectively means that you are actually doing everything at once but are only aware of one action.

Highly complex and difficult to explain.

Answer 4

String theory can be used to posit parallel universes. In fact, Brian Greene writes it might have been the collision of two or more parallel universes that let loose the enormous energy it took to create our universe of matter and energy. [See source.] Before colliding, the parallel universes are null universes without anything in them...the mass and energy (really just energy as they are equivalent) happens only after the null universes collide.

Greene likes to visualize these null universes as slices of bread in a meta universal loaf of bread. What spearates us in our null universe from the other universes are Planck length and time.

When one of those universal slices bumps into another, which happens when the Planck length that separates them goes to zero at the same time as another slice does, that change in momentum, the bump, is enough to create the so-called singularity in both universes. The singularity is just a tear in the fabric of the cosmos. And both slices have the big bang. Thus, not one, but two BB's are created during a single collision.

Answer 5

There are four basic interpretations of quantum mechanics: the Copenhagen, the von Neuman/Wigner, the hidden variables, and the Many Worlds. The last is the one you mentioned.

It is pure speculation, as it cannot be tested. The Copehagen is a cop-out (says we should not ask such questions) and hidden-variable theory is complicated and seems contrived.

That leaves the theory that consciousness is necc. to collapse the state vector. It is flawlessly logical, but also considered metaphysics, not physics, as there is no experiment in physics that can test it.

However, a series of recent experiments by physicist Helmut Schmidt on Micro-PK does support it. Check out the book Parapsychology and the Skeptics, by Chris Carter, for an extended discussion.

Answer 6

I don't think there could be an infinite number of parallel universes. I mean, parallel yes, but of every single decision. I think that's too much. Does the universe parallell itself with every single individual plus their decisions? I mean, is that a dimension out there somewhere playing out itself based on the decision that I pick a bagel instead of white bread? That I picked soft toilet paper instead of strong? I'm open minded, but that seems a little too far fetched for me.

Answer 7

Quite an interesting point of view..
It is really to get your head around some concepts. Just like the concept that the Universe is still expanding. Expanding into what exactly?
Do you know what i believe? I believe that this is a cycle. Universe starts off from a point of infinite density which explodes. It then expands into who-knows what, starts shrinking and then comes back to that point of infinite density again.
And everything we are aware of has happened and repeated who knows how many times before and will keep repeating until who knows when..

Answer 8

Very good thinking. This has actually been debated a long time ago and it's basically known as the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. You can read many books and papers on the subject.

Answer 9

What you have is a sort of child's analogy of what is known as the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's based on the famous double slit experiment, does the photon go through one slit, the other, or both? Well it depends whether or not you are looking at it. The many worlds hypothesis says the strange results you get are the effects of the "ghost" of the photon in the other universe. It appears to go through both because in our universe it went through one slit, in the other universe it went through the other.

Answer 10

Spot on....in the 'Conversations with God' books by Neale Donald Walsh this is the exact 'fact' that God tells him.....that every situation with every decision and every avenue off of that is being played out....i liken it to a computer game, you know 'pre-programmed' for every eventuality.....x

ps. you might wana have a read of the 'Conversations with God' books, its actually got nothing much to do with organized religion, but full of amazing gems like the above.....i strongly recommend you read books 1,2,+3....they will blow you away.