Hi, I have a question about an article I saw on the new york times?

Question

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?pagewanted=1&ref=science

could some tell me what is going on? I mean I think its about parallel universes?

Answer 1

Without getting too technical the article is regarding the theoretical possibility that anything can happen at any given moment based on what we currently know about the concept of time and the science of cosmology. IE: You wake up one morning to find that every single person on the planet now looks exactly like you. In theory this is possible although the math says that the odds are so high that it would probably never happen.

Answer 2

..interesting. =]

Answer 3

Pretty heady stuff, pardon the pun. I read the article and what I got from it was this: Some scientist's in the physic's/cosmology think tank, believe simply that we are not unique. They theorize that there are billions and billions of planets, like earth, as we know it, and other planets more or less advanced then our home base, that we know nothing about.

I believe the article was also pointing out that at any given time in our world, there are infinite other "brains", processing information exactly the same as we do some place else.... infinite, clone-like, brains in the galaxies.

They theorize, that through reincarnation, for example, our way of thinking and experiences have happened over and over again in different galaxies through time, existing at the same time as we do elsewhere. If this is true then we are not even original or real per sea.

Interesting to think about. It's sci/fi stuff that people have been talking about for many years.

Anyway, that's my take in simple terms ; p