There are several competing and overlapping theories about parallel universes, but the most basic is based on the simple, if mind-boggling, idea that if the universe is infinite then logically everything that could possible occur has happened or will happen.
Try this on for size: a copy of you living on a planet and in a solar system like ours is reading these words just as you are. Your lives have been carbon copies up to now, but maybe he or she will keep reading even if you don't, says Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts.
2007-12-30 17:11:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is not Golden Compass stuff but the real McCoy. So what? Perhaps life came from another universe as well?
2007-12-30 17:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Three hands on something like a clock. All three turn at different speeds. The third wheel turns at Pi time the difference of the first two wheels. If all three start at the same point, then they will never realign.
Nietzsche had the idea of an ever repeating universe, but you see, it is invalid. The universe may be infinite. If it is, it may be like Pi, infinitely unique.
I have never had a chance to use that fun little tid-bit until now. Thanks for the question.
2007-12-31 01:31:10 · answer #2 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the string theory, isn't it? It sounds good unless you really think about it. For every single choice you've made, the opposite choice is being played out in a parallel universe. Does that mean that if I choose burgers for dinner here, in another world I went with the alternate choice of pizza?
Sounds funny, but I'm being serious. When do the choices become small enough to not matter and not trigger another "me" in a parallel universe, living with the outcome of picking one thing over another.
2007-12-31 01:18:18 · answer #3 · answered by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Max Tegmark has lapsed into a poetic description of the Universe that is probably only loosely connected to the facts.
Even if he should produce evidence that conclusively proved his theory correct, I would be cynical enough to doubt his evidence and assume that perhaps he's made a mistake somewhere along the line.
2007-12-31 02:25:07 · answer #4 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No religious point of view is really needed; no religious text ever actually says that their aren't multiple universes. The argument that God transcends them all would of course appear, and result in a lot of theological quibbling, but that's about it.
Myself, I feel that the universe being infinite doesn't automatically neccesitate an infinite amount of matter. Conservation of matter and energy would need to be maintained, and a finite amount of matter and energy would mean that their is a limit to how much "stuff" their can be, even if the actual amount of universe is limitless. But that's physics, not faith.
2007-12-31 01:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by SomewhatSane 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is possible but in all parallel Universes there is one difference. A slightly different scenario. Just in case you didn't get it right in this life, you can make up for it in the other universe perhaps.
Now here is a thought for you. There is predicted a collision of universes. Things will appear out of no where and some will disappear. Yes even in our dreams they some books say we travel there at night while we sleep.
Jesus said " In my Fathers House there are many mansions"
(Dimensions)
Rev. TomCat ~ This is not a biblical viewpoint.
2007-12-31 01:20:38 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. TomCat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there were a anti-universe made of antimatter. It would be impossible to be exactly like out universe. It may have the same physical properties. Like gravity, and space time. It would probably even have stars and planets.
But an exact mirror image is more like science fiction than it is like science.
2007-12-31 01:16:43 · answer #7 · answered by Small Victories 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a Full Metal Alchemist world, that is the reality.
But I don't think the universe is infinite.
I think there's a beach somewhere.
2007-12-31 01:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The point is these are just ideas, the same as all other ideas. Who can know? Just as likely as there being 'someone' in charge doling out judgment and retribution though I suppose.
2007-12-31 01:21:09 · answer #9 · answered by skuleathome 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok, Now heres something to really think about?
" logically everything that could possible occur has happened or will happen" Someone really put a lot of thought into that THEORY.
2007-12-31 03:09:57 · answer #10 · answered by sparkplug 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋