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if you go into m-theory..or really any branch of quantum mechanics its basically an unwritten rule, the bigger problem comes when one thinks of said dimensions in too heavily a sci-fi way.
Me and my friend were discussing it today. We decided on the fact that since space is so infinite, why not have more?
I like the idea of the Quantum Suicide theory or something to that effect.
Let's say a man is standing next to a bomb. If the bomb goes off, the man will die. Now according to this theory there are parallel dimensions where you would not die. Maybe you ran away or disarmed it. So you would have these dimensions where you are dead but in at least one, you would be alive living your life. Kinda cool
Let's say a man is standing next to a bomb. If the bomb goes off, the man will die. Now according to this theory there are parallel dimensions where you would not die. Maybe you ran away or disarmed it. So you would have these dimensions where you are dead but in at least one, you would be alive living your life. Kinda cool
And... done (Schrödinger's cat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
It's a cool little theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
It's a cool little theory.
Yes. What I reckon is similar to Pratchett's Trousers of Time Theory (though I thought this myself before reading Discworld). Basically, every choice we make splits the universe into several different universes, whereby in each one we made a different choice. Because so many choices are made at the same time there are literally trillions of new universes made every instant because there isn't only one person's choice affecting it (think, six billion people on Earth. Assume they all make a choice in the same instant, out of two possible choices. This means that six billion factorial will be the possible number of permutations, hence six billion factorial is the number of new universes created. That doesn't take into consideration the number of possible events due to random chance and so on either, that occur in nature.)
This all means that there is pretty much an infinite number of different universes, where most will be extremely similar despite a single choice being different, especially considering most choices made have no other effect (so in some dimension there's a universe where I ate Coco Pops for breakfast this morning instead of scrambled eggs, and everything else is exactly the same). This theory was also stated as a possibility by various different scientists, including Hawking, I believe, over several years. It's a key factor in various dimensional theories in modern physics.
By the way, if anyone doesn't understand what 'factorial' means, it's basically a number multiplied by every number between it and zero, and is denoted #!. So 3! means 3 factorial and is equal to 1x2x3, 10! is 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10, and so on.
This all means that there is pretty much an infinite number of different universes, where most will be extremely similar despite a single choice being different, especially considering most choices made have no other effect (so in some dimension there's a universe where I ate Coco Pops for breakfast this morning instead of scrambled eggs, and everything else is exactly the same). This theory was also stated as a possibility by various different scientists, including Hawking, I believe, over several years. It's a key factor in various dimensional theories in modern physics.
By the way, if anyone doesn't understand what 'factorial' means, it's basically a number multiplied by every number between it and zero, and is denoted #!. So 3! means 3 factorial and is equal to 1x2x3, 10! is 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10, and so on.