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Old 04-17-2003, 01:53 AM   #1 of 21
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Multiverse - Long read. My brain hurts!


Check out the Scientific American article on Parallel Universes. It's a long read but very interesting.

Who all believes in parallel universes? Strings, branes and bubbles!



\"A human being is part of the whole called by us the Universe. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest --a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, and the whole of nature in its beauty.\" - Albert Einstein
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Old 04-17-2003, 09:51 AM   #2 of 21
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Just great, somewhere there is another me with a goatee and a sidearm robbing banks.
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Old 04-17-2003, 12:01 PM   #3 of 21
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And somewhere there is another me without a goatee, without a sidearm, who isn't robbing banks.
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Old 04-17-2003, 12:43 PM   #4 of 21
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And why on Earth did they refer to our cozy little Level I Multiverse spherical domain (the visible Universe) as a Hubble Volume when the name should obviously have been HUBBLE BUBBLE?

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Whoah, the Theory of Chaotic Eternal Inflation?

Wasn't that during the Carter years?
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Old 04-17-2003, 12:45 PM   #5 of 21
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Oh, and I tried to make some kind of joke using the word "brane", but nothing came to mind.
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Old 04-17-2003, 12:55 PM   #6 of 21
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Oh, and I tried to make some kind of joke using the word "brane", but nothing came to mind.


Yeah, and in a parallel universe, you were really funny!



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Old 04-17-2003, 01:15 PM   #7 of 21
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I want a DVD of that parallel universe version of "The Matrix" starring Brandon Lee instead of Canoe Reeves.
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Old 04-17-2003, 01:18 PM   #8 of 21
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"Hubble Bubble." I like that.



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Old 04-17-2003, 01:18 PM   #9 of 21
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Boy what coincidental timing! Scientific American sure is trying to cash in on the upcoming Timeline movie (based on the Crichton novel that deals with a variant of the theory in the article).
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Old 04-17-2003, 02:35 PM   #10 of 21
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Yeah, and in a parallel universe, you were really funny!
Trust me, Matt, you are WAY too kind!

It’s difficult to explain why I love this stuff so much, but here’s a good example:
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The prevailing view in physics today is that the dimensionality of spacetime, the qualities of elementary particles and many of the so-called physical constants are not built into physical laws but are the outcome of processes known as symmetry breaking.
Statements like this are like p0rn to a theoretical physicist.

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Richard The Third fell on his knee
But found a solution he could not see.
Though declared insane,
He slipped his brane,
And became Richard the 10^(10^123)
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Old 04-17-2003, 03:13 PM   #11 of 21
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In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.


So, they're saying I do have a shot at bagging Jennifer Garner!
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Old 04-17-2003, 05:00 PM   #12 of 21