Monday, November 15, 2010

APOD 2.3 (Multiverse)

What if there were entire universes parallel to ours on an unseen plane, each one unique from all the rest?  In some, people would just look different because they inherited different genes but made the same choices.  In others, people would make different choices in life, creating a cascade effect that slowly changes the overall layout of that world.  In the most extreme cases, the laws of physics would be different, changing everything that happens, making that universe incompatible with this universe.  However, some multiverse theories even suggest that our universe is constantly being influenced by these unseen worlds (like in some scientific experiments, where even single particles of light tend to follow a wave pattern through a hole in a wall).

At the same time, there are many people who not only don't believe in any of the multiverse theories, but also say that it would be so difficult to prove them that they can never be considered scientific fact.

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