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Originally posted by hippomchippo
What if I imagine a giant machine that destroys all parallel worlds?
If everything we imagine exists somewhere, the universe is going to be a very dark place.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by hippomchippo
What if I imagine a giant machine that destroys all parallel worlds?
If everything we imagine exists somewhere, the universe is going to be a very dark place.
I guess that's where the paradox busting comes in. So you imagine a universe in which there is a machine that destroys all other universes. Fine. But the machine only destroys all other universes within that particular universe you imagined. In other universes, where you didn't imagine that machine, everything is fine.
Originally posted by constantwonder
This is spectatcular. An example of the failings of ATS members at its best.
A completely layman article on Faux news and suddenly parallel universes are real.
Originally posted by Son of Will
The OP is incorrect. This is not a proven "fact", it is just one interpretation of laboratory tests on quantum mechanics, conducted before WWII. There are many other interpretations based on theories that don't require additional spacial dimensions, or infinite parallel universes.
But it is pretty wild stuff. Those double-slit experiments are out of this world! (excuse the pun)
Originally posted by drakus
So the cat's a zombie?
(Suck my second line)
Originally posted by willis7737
Essentially, if this finding holds true with further research, it would mean that we have complete control over our lives; truly 'creating our destiny' through our choices from moment to moment.
The real question is, am I the person sitting here reading this article on ATS?
Or am I the person who is out playing soccer?
Or am I the person who is taking a trip to Japan?
The article suggests that you are all of these people, as well as all of the possible people you could be so far based off of the decisions you have made, and could have made thus far in your life, as well as the decisions your other possible versions of yourself have, and could have made in their lives.
Mind-boggling isn't it?
Have a good day ATSers, and remember to be conscious in your decision making today!
www.foxnews.com
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Originally posted by SirPsychoSexy
reply to post by willis7737
so all I have to do is think my self to a point where I have graduated from college and won the lottery
so simple!
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst
Since I'm not the organized sort of person who "gets things done" and I've got nothing but a strange ability to "know what is true" -- I've decided that I probably won't patent the hundreds of creations I've figured out. I will try and reserve the odd "simple" invention, because those are easier for me to build.
So, ask me anything you've ever wanted to now about this Universe, and I'll try and give a coherent answer. If you can stump me, then it means my "physics model" is incomplete and at least it will give me something to ponder. So much that "gets discovered" seems like watching an old film that I've seen before, and I've been waiting for the Flying Car and warp gates that happens after the dramatic fights and love story and then the happy ending and credits roll.
-- I can throw models into my head, and they "interact" and all states overlap -- but I can "see" the correct one. The correct "truth" is in tune with the other overlapping "potential truths" -- but I can't just find the truth, I've got to bounce around and model all these "guesses."
>> I'll state categorically however; Time Travel is NOT possible -- however, there is LIKELY a distance in space you can go to, that will have an analog of you, wondering if Time Travel is possible. When things are infinite and generally follow a "fractal pattern" then repetition happens. I do NOT, think there are multiverses in the sense that "the you that took another choice, exists" -- nope. There is ONLY ONE SOLUTION and this is it.
Existence and the meaning of life? That's simple: Life is more interesting than perfection. If humans don't blow themselves up, they will become masters of matter, time and space, and create virtual worlds to play in. They will either be swallowed up by this cyber world, or they will limit their passions and use Reality as their canvass -- ultimately, the CHOICE, ends up with the same result - MORE REALISM in the inner world, reflects more MASTERY of the outer world. Just like creating a physics model to predict weather, helps us control weather -- controlling weather, helps us make better models.
So, if you see the ends of ultimate progress -- you can see that eventually, God-like powers, kind of mean God-Like for all intents and purposes.
If there is a soul -- then it is the watcher and you are the puppet. Your soul would be too massive for a mere spark of life that you live -- or for one person. The "evolved Gods" obviously, would visit reality through things that are alive -- in all their abundance. The lower-level Gods in training, would be tweaking life, planets and such like we might a garden.
They probably envy us in some ways.
Not that I KNOW of this -- but it seems such an obvious end to evolution, and since the Universe is infinite and has always been so -- then any POTENTIAL for life to evolve to god-hood has probably been realized. But that also probably means, that no super being is going to rescue you from your own stupidity, or the evil of other's -- it's all part of the "meaning of life" -- which is just to experience the state of living and evolving.
Now that the easy and BIG questions are out of the way -- hit me with some small stuff!