Right from the pages of a Star Trek script science is seriously looking into the feasiblity of co-existing parallel universes. In a story from The Press Association’s Breitbart.com comes this fascinating article about:
Parallel universes exist – study
Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as “one of the most important developments in the history of science”.
The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.
In Everett’s “many worlds” universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out – in its own universe.
A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless.
It is a bizarre idea which has been dismissed as fanciful by many experts. But the new research from Oxford shows that it offers a mathematical answer to quantum conundrums that cannot be dismissed lightly – and suggests that Dr Everett, who was a Phd student at Princeton University when he came up with the theory, was on the right track.
Commenting in New Scientist magazine, Dr Andy Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis, said: “This work will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of science.”
According to quantum mechanics, nothing at the subatomic scale can really be said to exist until it is observed. Until then, particles occupy nebulous “superposition” states, in which they can have simultaneous “up” and “down” spins, or appear to be in different places at the same time.
Observation appears to “nail down” a particular state of reality, in the same way as a spinning coin can only be said to be in a “heads” or “tails” state once it is caught.
According to quantum mechanics, unobserved particles are described by “wave functions” representing a set of multiple “probable” states. When an observer makes a measurement, the particle then settles down into one of these multiple options.
The Oxford team, led by Dr David Deutsch, showed mathematically that the bush-like branching structure created by the universe splitting into parallel versions of itself can explain the probabilistic nature of quantum outcomes.
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This is way cool. How do I jump to the universe where I made all the right choices and I’m attractive and popular? 🙂
Gazer, just mail me that check for One Million Dollars and I will give you the secret map. 🙂
I always get a kick out of these things. How many times have eggheads proposed something as odd as this before – based on their own math.
As a regular joe I tend to lean more towards the idea of there being one Universe, and that aforementioned egghead needs to re-check his long division.
This is all the stuff that’s going to allow us to break the laws of physics, like hyperspace, lightspeed, quantum computers that project their output directly into your brain, teleportation, and – in theory, if you believe Michael Crichton – time travel. I’m so excited, I can hardly contain my glee. Quantum Leap, and Sliders are starting to look a little more plausable.
So negative, Greg. Most thought Einstein’s ideas were foolish at first, as well, but time and experimentation as shown otherwise. It may indeed be a mathematical cheat or crutch, that will later be dropped. On the other hand, it may yet be able to stand the test of time. It’ll be exciting to follow, in either case.
Ok I am going to write a long comment on what I want to say. Please follow my comment and talk to me PLEASE! I came to this website in search of finding a way to learn a method to make me enter a world I want, a world where my problems arent. They are unsolveble in this Universe, I am not insane but have an obsession of being, looking and feeling like a child again. Where their is not the responsibility of being afraid of adulthood, aging and sex wich I find utter disgusting! In this world I dont want depression about things that look awful enough to make me feel down for example long uncut yeelow grass. Instead I want naturaly short cut green grass. The people around me should be different, I have tried pshycology, religion and arent getting anything out of mediation or hypnosis. Is their a way I can enter this dimension I want so badly?
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
its amazing…. gee, can u imagine that in this universe im leaving u a comment which ur contemporary in another parallel one wont have the good fortune to get….. love u… tak care
Stephen, you ARE crazy, even if you’re just joking. That just sounds really creepy and if you really think that, then you need to have that looked into. If you’re just joking, though, then SHUT UP!
Stephen, I don’t partake in them, but from what little I know, the best bet right now is massive doses of drugs. Possibly LSD, or some sort of mushroom.
Aside from that, you need to wait for advances in neural interfaces. Once perfected, you’ll be able to create, and live in, the virtual world of your choice.
If you really want it badly, get studying physics, get a PHD or something and start research. By the way, if you do manage to find a portal, create a wormhole or travel at speed of light, do inform some of us. it might be great to be in a time traveling group or so (altho even if it is possible, its waay to far into the futur to believe i’d live to see it)
Well this is really intiresting, and is possibly true. It is definitely true, because when people think of time travel or parrallel universes they think of a machine, but this isnt exactly so. I am a scientist at oxford, and my research shows that we are in a time machine, a very slow one. You see, black holes are time machines, you travel at the speed of light, and what feels like a minute in a black hole, is actually a millenium on a gravity planet like earth, so to make a time machine you will need to spin light, which controls gravity, at the speed of light and you will have a time machine.
This is absolutely correct. There is choice within certain parameters. Chinese Metaphysicists have known about the fundamental principles of this theory for thousands of years. Tapping into visible and invisible “cues” or “strings” ties down the selected “choice” or a particular state of reality and influences the outcome to favour the specific “observer” in the anticipated “way”
Western science lags behind the East and even as they start to wake up people reading about this phenomenon are incredulous.