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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: SteveMcKing
"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
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:12:10 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
To: mnehrling
"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.
To: Lancey Howard
To get to the Square Bizarre World one must use this
To: bruinbirdman
So when I have a really bad day, it is because I woke up in the wrong universe?
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:19:55 PM PDT
by
Rocky
To: bruinbirdman
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.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:20:34 PM PDT
by
CHEE
(You don't have to practice to be miserable.)
To: bruinbirdman
"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.
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To: bruinbirdman
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.
To: bruinbirdman
In a parallel universe I have Bill Gate’s money and Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:24:47 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me)
To: bruinbirdman
Wow - a nightmare Universe where Bill Clinton is in charge and made himself emperor.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:26:24 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: bruinbirdman
So once again, it’s Bush’s fault!
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:27:14 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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!
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To: swatbuznik
So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election.... Yes. It's call the EVIL parallel universe.
To: bruinbirdman
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
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:32:11 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: CHEE
>>>>I woke up this morning and it was last week.
You gotta stop buying your drugs by price alone!
:~)
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:33:24 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: Perdogg
“In a parallel universe I have Bill Gates money and Hugh Hefners girlfriends.”
Yes, but in a perpendicular universe you are Helen Thomas’s boy toy..
To: bruinbirdman
"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.
To: bruinbirdman
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.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:41:20 PM PDT
by
NMR Guy
To: bruinbirdman
Parallel Universe
What FR once was, and what JR and the Mods have corrupted it to now be.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:43:34 PM PDT
by
Enduring Freedom
(Q: Personal Hygiene A: Name something that offends both Terrorists and Leftists)
To: CJ Wolf
hopefully there’s a parallell universe (dark mirror image or not) where Hillary Clinton is the dog catcher for Westchester County.
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:43:36 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(The Republic--Shall be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure Society!)
To: Nervous Tick
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!
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posted on
09/22/2007 9:43:51 PM PDT
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TaMoDee
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