Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes

The Telegraph ^ | 9/21/2007 | Roger Highfield

[bruinbirdman]

"it makes a sound AND it doesn't . . . until something observes it..."

Did the ant that the tree fell on "observe it", hear the sound? Did the amoeba to the left of the falling tree "observe it"? Did the leaf on the falling tree "observe it"? Did the silica molecule the tree fell on "observe it"?

yitbos

[Tench_Coxe]

"Someone should give John Titor a buzz"

Was just thinking about that. Didn't his tales talk about divergence of time streams or some such as one goes back? Whoever the writer was, he/she was pretty good with science fiction. Now all we have to do is see if CERN comes up with something--although, there needs to be some sort of cataclysmic war first.

[uptoolate]

To get to the Square Bizarre World one must use this

[Rocky]

So when I have a really bad day, it is because I woke up in the wrong universe?

[CHEE]

I woke up this morning and it was last week. Now I wonder if it’s yesterday yet. Back in the days of youth and lost weekends I might have understood this stuff. I never did drugs so I’m pretty sure it is still almost today for another 40 minutes.

[I see my hands]

"the universe splitting into parallel versions of itself can explain the probabilistic nature of quantum outcomes."

Even if you follow this stuff on a lay level you had to see this coming.

I'm glad that in a parallel universe I will live forever and get to see all this keen science play out.

[SteveMcKing]

The article I read was posted to Slashdot, sorry I don't have the link. However that question was answered by one of the many anonymous "experts" who post: any physical interaction is considered an observation. Even a particle.

I'd imagine the "outcome" must be a sum/average of the trillions of interactions taking place? I'm out of my league and only guessing, but that's what I took from it.

[Perdogg]

In a parallel universe I have Bill Gate’s money and Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends.

[Tzimisce]

Wow - a nightmare Universe where Bill Clinton is in charge and made himself emperor.

[chaosagent]

So once again, it’s Bush’s fault!

[I see my hands]

To: I saw my hands

"I'm glad that in a parallel universe I will live forever and get to see all this keen science play out"

Whoa! Dude! It's this one!

[LdSentinal]

So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election....

Yes. It's call the EVIL parallel universe.

[MindBender26]

Parallel Universes are simply a way for non-critical thinking physicists to say “Something we can’t define, and could be anything at all, explains everything.”

Theory de jour

[MindBender26]

>>>>I woke up this morning and it was last week.

You gotta stop buying your drugs by price alone!

:~)

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“In a parallel universe I have Bill Gate’s money and Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends.”

Yes, but in a perpendicular universe you are Helen Thomas’s boy toy..

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists that sweeps away one of the key objections to the mind boggling and controversial idea."

Cool! I've been interested in this topic for a long time. But this can't be the final word. There will be other scientists working like mad to prove them wrong. I just don't think this closes off debate for good though it presents a challenge to the naysayers to overcome.

[NMR Guy]

Every since it was given serious lab cred in 1949 by the great logician Kurt Godel...

Well, I was going to dismiss this as junk, but any article that contains the term "lab cred" and a shot from Doctor Who must be legit.

[Enduring Freedom]

Parallel Universe

What FR once was, and what JR and the Mods have corrupted it to now be.

[Schwaeky]

hopefully there’s a parallell universe (dark mirror image or not) where Hillary Clinton is the dog catcher for Westchester County.

[TaMoDee]

Good one! LOLROTH!! My car keys spent 15 minutes there this afternoon. I have 25 socks in my drawer. BUT when I dropped the bit chuck key for my drill and two minutes later I went
to pick it up and it was gone and I searched on my hands and knees and then got a metal detector NOTHING.
That was scary!