Parallel universes

Parallel Universe – interesting concept.

BBC Horizon: Parallel Universes


I did see once a bench top experiment that can demonstrate this but just now I can’t find any info on it.

I laughed a this bit...

Me too! Sounds like a great big bubble bath. Well, stuff like that is enough to turn anyone's brain to froth really.

Well they did swear that the world was flat until around 400 years ago

An that you would if you exceeded more than 30 miles per hour 200 years ago

You would die? Is that the verb missing there?

I wouldn't be surprised. Not like we would really ever find out anyway, if there is such a parallel universe. Had a conversation with a friend about this a while ago, I don't know what to think really...

Nice one!

Theologists always believed that God created the universe. To which a scientist had once retorted "What was your God doing before that?" . He was creating plenty !

If time started with the creation of the universe in the realm that we exist in, the word "before" would seem out of context.

there are so many people who believe in invisible entities, with so little quantifiable facts to justify it

Best non-mathy math book ever: Flatlands: A Romance of Many Dimensions

It's just a great & funny read, very relevant to this thread.

The info probably leaked away into a parallel universe.

@Nadia, Yes, "Flatland" is a good read.


The way I think of it is that it doesn't make sense to talk about what was "before" our universe, because time as we experience it only exists within our universe. So the question is not "What came before?", but "What lies beyond?". To me, the idea of an infinity of other universes seems perfectly plausibe - I mean, why not? Why should we assume ours is the only one that exists, just because it's the only one we can see. But we know little enough about it as it is, so I wonder how we can ever hope to know anything about what lies beyond it.

That web page that the first post links to is dated 2002. I wonder if there has been any progress in the research since then? And that reminds me, does anyone know if those scientists managed to create a baby universe yet?

No. Myth. Eratosthenes knew it was a sphere and calculated its circumference some 2250 years ago. Pliny the Elder and Ptolomey concurred. No one thought the Earth was flat in the Middle Ages. We think they did thanks to a book by Washington Irving.

As many as 11 dimensions are required for M-Theory to work correctly. This is a superset of five different variants of string theory. If you want to understand how it's all supposed to work I highly recommend Brian Greene's book, The Elegant Universe. I'm pretty sure it's still in print and if not, I'm willing to lend my copy. It explains the bases of string theory in non-specialist terms with almost no mathematics or equations.

woof.

Tho technically it’s not a sphere

A parallel universe would be nice at the moment. Especially one without cnuts and lots of beer and naked women and beer and no cnts and more beer and stuff and stuff

EDIT: oh and more stuff and less cnuts

Is there a difference between parallel universes and a new dimension called gravity?

If the moon is made of cheese and the universe made of string, what is the earth made of ?

They never tell us that in skool

Is it dog food ?

Naked women but no cnuts...that is hell.

In the parallel universe is where the fine beer and wine is made, and all the women are in the in new dimension called gravity

pay your money and take your choice

I saw this on a science television program many years back but unfortunately I saved on some grey matter that was later destroyed by substance abuse.
Vaguely it was a light source that is passed through some device and something happens to the light source that can be only explained by the existence of a parallel universe thus proving that parallel universes can exist.

Parallel Universe and String theory is fasinating..
here are a list of nice videos

I used to live in one of those parallel universes. Much cheaper, and naked girls everywhere. Rivers of beer and whiskey flow all over. Liverpool wins the Premiership every year. Getting there is a bit painful though thanks to earth's primitive rocket propulsion technology.Coming back is much easier but obviously you can not carry your clothes, so you show up naked everytime you come back to earth.

Dont forget to take your towel!!