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Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes
The Telegraph ^ | 9/21/2007 | Roger Highfield

Posted on 09/22/2007 8:52:50 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: Larry Lucido
Will our parallel universe have parallel parking? Well we send each other messages via parallelograms?
Excellent. It reminds me of something Woody Allen said once about Deep Reality.

Something like: what I want to know about Deep Reality, is it open all night, and how far is it from Midtown?

121 posted on 09/23/2007 1:01:09 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: CJ Wolf
If Al Gore won 2000. He’d win 2004, J. Kerry wouldn’t have won any thing in ‘0 nor be recognized. Heck he wouldn’t have even bin a contender.
Hmmm. I wonder if it's a possibility that with Infinite Parallel Universes we can have every possible outcome except a President John Kerry.
122 posted on 09/23/2007 1:03:03 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Enchante
I keep wanting to know why “I” can’t live in that parallel possible world in which “I” can do and have and be anything I want, even better than a Superman...... Jessica Alba would be just the beginning of my hedonistic delights.......

But of course, you do. Just use that knowledge to inflate your ego and innervate your id. Then call Jessica. That universe could also still be this one.

123 posted on 09/23/2007 1:04:45 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: morkfork
The real question is is this testable? Can any one experiment prove it wrong?
The same questions apply to string theory. Both are based on pure mathematics and have no actual observational evidence to back them up. I suspect things will stay that way, at least in this universe.
124 posted on 09/23/2007 1:06:59 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: TC Rider
I’m my own Grandpa!

Woodrow Wilson Smith already thought of that.

125 posted on 09/23/2007 1:07:14 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Nervous Tick

>> Duh. Of course they do. That’s where the rest of your socks are. Occasionally your car keys spend a little time there, too.

I’m glad someone understands !!

My glasses go there too.


126 posted on 09/23/2007 1:11:16 PM PDT by JMJJR (Paristan, Londonstan, Denmarkstan, Washigntonstan, how will you look in YOUR new burka ?)
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To: COgamer
Even theories that are more or less “proven” remain labeled theories because other, as yet undiscovered, explanations could exist.
The word "theory" doesn't say anything about whether an idea is "proven" or not.

Theory and fact are not rungs on a ladder, with fact being higher than theory. They are two different things.

Facts are what we see. Theories are our explanation for the facts. Even when the explanation is backed up by trillions of pieces of fact, and is basically irrefutable (such as the theory of evolution), it still remains a theory, because that's what it is, a theory, an explanation.

127 posted on 09/23/2007 1:11:30 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: bruinbirdman
serious lab cred in 1949 by the great logician Kurt Godel
In 1949 logicians worked in a laboratories? What kind?
128 posted on 09/23/2007 1:15:03 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: rgboomers
Basically, a mathematical construct assuming parallel universes exists explains certain quantum behavior. As the number of possible explanations for this quantum behavior is infinite and this is but one, we are a long way from needing to worry about the existence of parallel universes.
Well said. It's a mathematical construct. Without impugning the hard work of all those mathematicians out there, mathematical constructs are a dime a dozen.
129 posted on 09/23/2007 1:17:44 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: SamAdams76
If the parallel universe theory is true and a separate universe exists for every possibility, than in one of these universes, I am master of you all and you are all my slaves.

You missed the key flaw to your theory. Parallel universes exist for every possibility, not impossibilities. :->

130 posted on 09/23/2007 1:21:16 PM PDT by mnehring (Thompson/Hunter 08 -- Fred08.com - The adults have joined the race.)
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To: Enduring Freedom
What FR once was, and what JR and the Mods have corrupted it to now be.

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131 posted on 09/23/2007 1:21:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: bruinbirdman

ping for later


132 posted on 09/23/2007 1:22:37 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: TC Rider
I’m my own Grandpa!

Yes Fry, we know you did the nasty in the pasty.

133 posted on 09/23/2007 1:23:07 PM PDT by mnehring (Thompson/Hunter 08 -- Fred08.com - The adults have joined the race.)
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To: bruinbirdman
Dr 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.

You just had to know that Bush would get blamed for this somehow. ;^(

134 posted on 09/23/2007 1:31:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Don't taze me, Bro!!!)
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To: Tzimisce
re: # 29

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

And had sex with that woman?????

135 posted on 09/23/2007 1:47:18 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: MindBender26
re; # 33

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.” Kinda like evolution, huh??

136 posted on 09/23/2007 1:49:53 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: MindBender26
re: # 34

You gotta stop buying your drugs by price alone!

Yeah, smart folks buy them by color and size. You know, like bikinis, the smaller the better and more tasty.

137 posted on 09/23/2007 1:52:24 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: swatbuznik
So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election....

That universe actually exists on Democratic Underground....

138 posted on 09/23/2007 1:56:36 PM PDT by dirtbiker (I'm a liberal's worst nightmare: a redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: Schwaeky
re: # 39 ,p. hopefully there’s a parallell universe (dark mirror image or not) where Hillary Clinton is the dog catcher for Westchester County.

Shame on you, you Dog Hater you!!!!!

What did dogs ever do to horrendous deserve such a fate?

139 posted on 09/23/2007 1:57:46 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: SteveMcKing

The topic has gone past my understanding.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I doubt that, you probably just haven’t thought about it long enough, most people aren’t interested enough to expend the effort. Life may be more enjoyable to you without such distractions. Have a blessed day.


140 posted on 09/23/2007 2:06:03 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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