Parallel universes

[the game]

Do you believe in parallel universes? I personally do.

[GennGreymane]

Would be interesting if true. It means in one universe, I am banging Natalie Portman.

[Paula Deen]

Is the Super Mario 64 Shitposting spreading here too or is this an actual thread?

We have no evidence, so no, they don't

[Revi]

They're pure speculation, we can't really say either way.

Personally, no. At least not in the way they're often presented (everything that could happen, happens).

[Spiral Mage]

There is some mathematical evidence that shows they may exist, but I do not know if they do. Would be pretty interesting though.

If you knew whether they did or did not, you'd be famous for your research.
Jes' sayin'.

I don't know, I don't believe the idea myself entirely ..
but there's alotta stories out there about weird circumstances where people "appeared in our world" with memories of our world going in a vastly different direction -- but honestly, those stories are also all online and if they're online .. sadly, how much can you really believe them?

If those stories were true, and could be confirmed. Some of them are really interesting but with how many hoaxes there are on the internet, I can't take them as anything more than entertaining concepts.

Still, if someone could confirm some of them were true? I'd give it more thought.

Like the dude who showed up in Japan, at the airport, claiming he was from a non-existent country but had a passport and everything, that was supposedly 100% authentic. If that story is true, that'd be some proof in favor of it.

[Vash The Stampede]

It's a fun idea but no real evidence that this exists.

[Deleted]

I find a multiverse (multiple different realities/universes can exist at once) more likely/believable then parallel universes (multiple, though ussualy infinite, versions of the same thing existing simultaneously).

If there is a theory that treats parallel universes similar to superpositions in quantum mechanics, i could probably get into that.

[Adam Jensen]

They make sense in physics, they'd explain why our universe is "just right" for life to form. Nudge certain variables just a tad, like the strength of dark energy or the Higgs Field, and our universe changes drastically to the point even matter cannot exist. So why does our universe have the right conditions for matter and life to form? Simple: there are many, perhaps infinitely many, universes all with every possible law of physics and values for constants. Naturally, we'd only form in the ones that are right for us to form in.

Brian Green makes better sense of it:



But of course, there's no confirmation any other universe actually exists so it's all speculation at this point. But it makes sense.

[Deleted]

I'm open to possibilities, but so far there's not a shred of proof of parallel universes existing.

[Deleted]

They make sense in physics, they'd explain why our universe is "just right" for life to form. Nudge certain variables just a tad, like the strength of dark energy or the Higgs Field, and our universe changes drastically to the point even matter cannot exist. So why does our universe have the right conditions for matter and life to form? Simple: there are many, perhaps infinitely many, universes all with every possible law of physics and values for constants. Naturally, we'd only form in the ones that are right for us to form in.

Brian Green makes better sense of it:



But of course, there's no confirmation any other universe actually exists so it's all speculation at this point. But it makes sense.

that's what i meant with multiverse: big bangs happen all the time and new universes begin and end all the time. Some big bangs are bigger then others. Some suit life some dont, they all have different starting conditions and laws of physics. Each universe is independent of others.

I think the general idea behind parallel universes is more like: the starting conditions for all universes are the same, same laws of physics, same size, same amount of energy, but trough random chance they grow apart over time.

[Techno-Druid]

Like others have said, largely speculation. That being said. i have mixed feelings on even it's concept.

We often in fiction like to portray parallel universes/timelines as nearly the exact same, but tue truth is millions if not billions of factors go into how we are in the present.

Of course I have limited knowledge on this subject, I largely agree with Connal and Revi

[Solarflash]

Is the Super Mario 64 Shitposting spreading here too or is this an actual thread?

We have no evidence, so no, they don't

LOL... So things come into existence when we start to find evidence on them...

Apparently they are trying to use parallel universes to get quantum computers to work. Don't know if the speaker is FOS or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU

[Deleted]

LOL... So things come into existence when we start to find evidence on them...

Apparently they are trying to use parallel universes to get quantum computers to work. Don't know if the speaker is FOS or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU

Seems to me he is just trying to explain superpositions to a layman's audience so i wouldn't take it to literal.

[Ayla]

They're pure speculation, we can't really say either way.

Personally, no. At least not in the way they're often presented (everything that could happen, happens).

Yeah I think that's pretty bs. You're telling me there is a parallel universe where I do AND don't pick my nose after hitting submit and then somehow it splits and possibly again depending upon if I choose to fling it at the closest person to me? NO WAI

[Xada]

Would be interesting if true. It means in one universe, I am banging Natalie Portman.

If there's infinite universes, you're always banging Natalie Portman, and at the same time, you're never banging Natalie Portman.

[TheCount]

So wait, if parallel universes do exist then that would mean that a parallel version of me would not be posting? *mind blown*

I think that they do not exist but that's just me

[Deleted]

To be honest no I don't believe it just because human mind figured that out. It might be more complicated than people could ever imagine.

[Kuze]

Is the Super Mario 64 Shitposting spreading here too or is this an actual thread?

We have no evidence, so no, they don't

That's not how it works though, define evidence, what do you consider to be evidence, does everyone agree with your definition of evidence? If you can answer all of these and the final answer with a yes, then you can say that.

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Yeah I think that's pretty bs. You're telling me there is a parallel universe where I do AND don't pick my nose after hitting submit and then somehow it splits and possibly again depending upon if I choose to fling it at the closest person to me? NO WAI

You might feel that way because the concept of what infinite means doesn't make sense to you.

[Deleted]

The universe is a probabilistic simulator which renders reality according to known information.

[Independent voter]

If we are living in a simulation like the Matrix or a futuristic version of SimCity, then there is no reason there aren't other simulations running in parallel, or even trillions of simulations. This would be something a race advanced a thousand years could do. They would create these simulations to study alternate timelines of history or whatever. I'm just pulling this out of my butt.