Daysniper
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So I've been reading up on parallel universes and such, and for the most part they strike me as absurd. But in some sense I agree that because space is infinite (at least that's what it looks like) then there would be a 100% probability of any one thing occurring somewhere in the universe. We can't see it because our bubble is only as big as time and the speed of light will allow. But I have also read that the "Big Bang" (please no religious arguments... ) could actually have been a leak into this "bubble" from a universe next door. So that's the first point to discuss: this theory would potentially solve all the problems, expansion, etc. But if this happened, would that mean that the universe next to us is shrinking? Again, with the infinite probability, it has to happen somewhere. And is matter as we know it actually just spilling over? What could plug a universal "leak?" And if indeed this were the case, would it be possible to go through the hole into a whole different universe?

Discuss these and any other interesting cosmology questions. And please no religious arguments. I don't want this topic shut down.
PuckMercury
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+298|7007|Portland, OR USA
I tihnk it is a mathematical certainty that parallel universes exist just as there must exist life elsewhere.  More later ...
Laika
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You know Ive always found these theories interesting, but not once have I ever heard any logical or mathematical reasoning to back them up. In other words, all of this shit sounds made up to me.

Can anybody explain how these theories hold more water than some educated guess?
Daysniper
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Well, these theories really are just conjecture based on the fact that space is limitless and infinite. Think about it: in an infinite space, the probability of something existing is an absolute mathematical certainty.

Now, the fact that space is infinite is pretty well established. OK, well, the fact that space is flat is pretty well established and the only logical conclusion is that it is then infinite.

And Schrodinger was mostly quantum mechanics, right? Not cosmology.

Last edited by Daysniper (2008-04-16 18:23:04)

SenorToenails
Veritas et Scientia
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Daysniper wrote:

And Schrodinger was mostly quantum mechanics, right? Not cosmology.
He's using that as an example.  You really need to have a solid groundwork or physics and it's associated math before you can attempt to understand these other theories.  If you don't even learn quantum mechanics until college, when do you learn about these other topics?

I'm studying for an MS in physics, and I haven't learned anything about m-theory at all.  That's something that is specialized amongst even specialists.

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