Do you subscribe to the multiverse theory

Question

Why, or why not?

It's something I'm curious about but I don't have much knowledge of it, so I'm curious to see people's thoughts.

(could you please try to keep it in layman's terms!)

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Answer 1

it is a bunch of theories in one question,that has good sides and bad sides...either scientifically or religiously..hope I help..

Answer 2

yes, it explains alot, scientifically, and spiritually

Answer 3

Layman's terms? Try this: http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks...  

Answer 4

Yes! It's not even a theory; it's the reality. You were born with an entirely different circumstance from the rest of the creation. What do you think? Even how we perceive the world as an individual differs because of personal experiences and religious beliefs.

Humans perceive plants as non-concious living entity; but are humans sure? Even the seemingly dead stones are alive microscopically! Who says that animals and insects could not perceive? By perception, one recognizes the world -- whatever that world is. And how could you tell how one entity perceives the universe if you're not it?

I have read one impossible question: Could a dog really fall in love? But I have one possible answer: I don't know. I hadn't been one. At least, that's as far as I could remember. So, to your question: do you subscribe? Yes. Why? You have no choice but to believe. Seeing that there are still many hidden worlds and universes here which are still unseen by our naked eyes. How much more if we extend our exploration outside the earth's atmosphere?

Answer 5

Humans have always been insane. Life it's self is insane but we refuse to accept it. All life is parasitical.

Answer 6

I do.

it explains that thing where something can be in two states at once until you look at it - called a superposition - like the Schrödinger's cat thing - you know, with the cat being both alive and dead until you look.

Well in the multiverse - the cat CAN be alive AND dead.

If anyone wants to prove the multiverse theory someone did figure out a way (dont try this at home!) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Sui...

Answer 7

Hello,

(ANS) I have a relative (Dr.Peter Ratoff) who is a nuclear physicist & works in the same field of study as Dr.Hawkins. He already has time & experiments booked on the LHC (that's the LARGE Hadron Collider) which is about to be switched on for the first time ever. The LHC is the biggest cynclotron ever built is Mega BIG & they hope it will help finally answer some of the most difficult questions about the universe at the most fundamental level.

**Astronomers, Astro-physicists & Nuclear particle scientists have been trying for several decades to come up or complete a theory that explains everything from the tiniest sub atomic particles to entire galaxies. So far ALL theories have failed but string theory & super string theory have closest. But "M theory" (the existence of a multi dimensional universe) is ONLY A THEORY but has yet to be proved or dis proved. M theory is the only idea that would explain both Eisteins theory of relativity & Gravity and unify them in any meaningful way. But its a theory looking for evidence or proof this is where the LHC comes into play. The LHC is a tool that it is hoped may answer this theory once and for all. The LHC is thought to be so powerful that we may even be able to make artifical black holes here on earth (something thats never ever been done before) but nobody knows how or what will happen when the LHC comes online. Its very exciting stuff.

Ivan.

Answer 8

I like it because it gets rid of the weird quantum mechanical concept of a collapsing wave function.

In quantum mechanics the most common way to model an evolving system is to use a wave function to represent the probabilities that the system will change in particular ways. The problem with that approach is that our knowledge of the system remains fuzzy and undefined until we make an observation or measurement at which point the wave function "collapses" and the haze of possibilities evaporates away leaving the system in the state when we observed it or measured it.

In the many-worlds (relative state) interpretation of quantum theory, instead of everything being indeterminate and fuzzy until we actually make a measurement or observation, every possible thing that can happen to the system actually does happen but happens separately, each in its own distinct and mutually exclusive universe: universes in this multiverse can overlap but only do so where and when interference takes place between them until decoherence sets in and they separate into non-interacting independent realities!

But here's the real kicker.

With every quantum event that happens you and I and everything else "splits" so that a copy of each of us exists in every universe in which the quantum event has a possible outcome!  

Weird and counter-intuitive but mathematically consistent!

Bet you're sorry you asked now.

Answer 9

No, because it is logically ridiculous. When you eliminate the impossible, all that you have left is the possible. There is only one version of reality possible. All other possible permutations will encounter paradoxes which will render them impossible.

We've all heard of the grandfather paradox, wherein someone travels back in time and kills their grandfather. Which creates the paradox of their never having been born, so how could they have gone back in time and killed their grandfather. Such paradoxical universes cannot exist.

Every possible permutation for the current universe that one can imagine will encounter similar paradoxes. Even mundane, insignificant events will have unforeseen consequences that will render them impossible.

The only exception to this occurs on the quantum level, where particles exist only in a state of probabilities. When not required to interact with other particles, a particle can exist in all possible states. Because there is no chance of paradoxes arising. Once you move beyond this most basic system and begin to have interaction with the rest of the universe, you reduce the possible states to one. The particle's probability state collapses because it has to collapse. It is forced to reduce from that which is simply probable, to that which is actually possible.

Once you eliminate the impossible, this universe is all that is left.