Do you believe in multiple universes?
Don't hide the details of your views.
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Do you believe in multiple universes?
Don't hide the details of your views.
I believe it so much I can barely function in normal society.
So much so that I gave my daughter an idea for a story called "the other me" that was so well received at school that she got an award for it.
I think every decision we make creates an alternate universe and that sometimes the walls between them are very thin. This is why I love the DT so much :wub:
great thread Letti
Your views always amaze me, Matt. :D
I beleive in a multiverse a lot like king's theory actually. But yes, defininitly.
I think that some of the great authors who create their own other literary worlds get their ideas from visiting them
I'll second that. :lol:Quote:
I believe it so much I can barely function in normal society.
I definitely do. I have since I was very little in fact.
It might sound a very stupid questions.. but do you guys have proofs or evidences or are these just feelings and thoughts, ideas?
Let's tear apart this topic. It's so exciting. :D
Why would you think anyone would think that Letti? Now asking something like "Does Letti's avatar picture show how drop dead gorgeous she is?" Now THAT is a stupid question...or they're blind. Anyway...
As for proof? No, it's purely a strong belief I've had since I was 7 or 8 or so..now there is some scientific research going into it and from what I've read on that end there is a lot of evidence pointing towards the existence of a multi-verse. I've often thought that the things that over the years of mankinds existence, we've called supernatural have been contacts between this world and others. I believe there are parts of this world that are "thin", where you can often experience this kind of contact.
Also, changing your consciousness, heightening it via drugs, or meditation or a big one, death is able to bring us into contact with other worlds.
Nikolett, please pay most serious attention to the first paragraph of AllHail's post right above mine.
As for proofs - the experience (my own; my friends' and acquaintances' in the so-called real world; my friends' and other people's I have canvassed in my own thread very similar to this at .net; people reporting weird events in media - these last may be 99.99% bumhugs, but why should I suspect all?) shows that too many things can't be explained otherwise, while multiverse would explain a lot. I love Ockham's razor. If an assumption explains more than one phenomenon, I am inclined to like the assumption more than a dozen others that would explain every phenomenon separately.
Well pay most serious attention to all of my post.. ;)
A bit no on proof for me but I do believe a persons perception has a lot to do with their reality. That being said, I also think that we don't "see" (or perceive) as much as we are capable of.
If you imagine the electromagnetic scale--we are only able to see a very small amount of the light spectrum. Now, that doesn't prove any thing and may seem disjointed but its just an example of what we are are not aware of happening around us all the time.
Also consider the famous Homer quote (Simpsons not the blind guy :lol:0
Poor fish! They don't even know they are wet.
Okay, I see your points I really do but the way it's so natural for you that there are other worlds than this it's so natural to me to think in this only one.
Nice avoid Letti! :cool:
I know it makes me seem to be dull. But in fact I am. :P
(thanks AllHail :D)
I also believe in other worlds/whens. I think what convinces me most is myths and legends.
Take something like dragons for instance. They are so ingrained in mythology, yet there would seem to be no scientific/historical evidence for them existing or having existed. So why are they so prevailent (sp)?
I would say thats because maybe in some other world they are/were a reality - and like CK says, there are places or altered states in which the ways between worlds are thin - and that some people may cross over and thats how we gain these myths etc.
I also have had these beliefs and theories since I was very young - although I still don't feel particularly eloquent on the subject, or maybe thats because its too contradictory? For example - I believe alot of legends may have formed from these chance encounters with other worlds, but I also believe many myths are easily rationalized as storys invented to explain certain phenomena or situations.
I don't think a person necessarily physically travels to another place, I think perhaps only our subconcious does...read KPAX for more enlightenment :D
However - I also agree with Matt, that are reality is shaped very much by our perceptions of it. I think acceptance of concepts we might not personally be able to percieve or comprehend though is sometimes needed...a leap of faith I guess you'd say.
Do you think these worlds are different or similar or both?
For me, there are as many differences as their are choices. There is a Matt somewhere that is still married to that witch for instance. :lol:
poor alternative Matt ;)
Yep, I don't envy that bastard.
But I bet he does me :nana:
Higher dimensions, yes. Multiverses, no.
You didn't put a "Maybe" in this poll. I think it's a good possibility, but i have nothing to base that on other than maybe just the idea that I think it would be cool.
yeah, i voted yes because it just seems silly not to believe in other worlds.
Yes I do. And as long as there is no proof of it not existing, I'll continue believing it. I mean, the universe is so wide and big and huge, why wouldn't there be any other worlds, why wouldn't there be any other parallelworlds?
That's all the proof I need! :)
I voted yes, i think parallel worlds do exist but are sadly shut to us and hidden beneath the fabric of reality... Maybe UFOs are people from parallel words that have found a hole in time and space and have been able to enter.. Maybe there are holes or "doors" that allow us access to these worlds and people have stumbled on them by mistake? Like the Bermuder Triangle?...
I voted yes. Until I see empirical proof of it being otherwise, I see no reason not to consider this a very realistic possibility.
What R of G said
:unsure: ...Here comes the men in white jackets ready to take you "home" Allhail...
They've already came and they made for a delicious breakfast. Send more please, and fatter ones this time.
:) Yes Kingy...
*walks away slowly* :ninja:
In regards to a multiverse I vote yes. :P
There has been some empirical evidence that definitely points to the existence of multiple universes (not necessarily parallel universes).
Beyond the potential scientific evidence, the existence of mulitple, and even parallel universe, clears up a lot of theological/metaphysical questions (imo).
If every possible universe exists, as in Matt's example (poor guy :)), then it might be possible that an intelligence exists that can view and interact with all possible universes simultaneously. It might even be possible that through quantum entanglement we may occasionally get a glimpse of these other universes (which lends itself to some intriguing explanations for "psychic" phenomenon).
Technically, we live in a 3 dimensional spatial world that we can measure (length, width and height), and the 4th is Time. See Einstein's General and Special Theory of Relativity.
When connected to Quantum Mechanics, at least 10 dimensions space/time/gravity etc. are required.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/dimensions.html
I'm an agnostic about a lot of things really.
Scientifically, it doesn't seem entirely plausible for there to be parallel worlds. A lot of people may say there is no evidence of parallel universes, so they likely do not exist, but if I may use an overused quote: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." I'm too imaginative to rule out the possibility of things like these. I won't ever completely believe or disbelieve in things like this until I see hard evidence with my own eyes.
I don't believe they exist, but I don't disbelieve either, if that makes any sense.
While I'm not sure of the existance of parallel worlds, I certainly hope they and other things like them exist. It would be quite disappointing if everything supernatural turned out to be false and hoaxes, no?
EDIT: I didn't vote because I feel that neither of the choices apply to me.
I totally agree Toren--I believe it with all my heart.
Also destiny or Ka
I absolutely believe in multi-universes. But maybe my definition of universe isn't the same as everyone else's. It's a little like the multi-demensional thing in that there is so much we as humans ARE NOT seeing/feeling/acknowledging. I don't necessarily believe there is another "me" living on planet Nimrodomania in Sector 19, Quandrant 23.
Hmmm, let me try to put this in an easy analogy: We are a lot like ants. Ants who travel back and forth, doing work and what we are told (for the most part). Doubting me at this moment? Look at the ants lined up, marching to destinations, doing what they need to do (picking up a crumb) then turning around and going back home. Then imagine yourself in an airplane, looking down at the ground, watching cars in lines...doing the same thing.
I don't know this for a fact, but I don't think ants realize we (humans) are here. To them we are like the unseen hand when step on them, brush them away with our brooms, destroy their homes. And when this happens...when we do something to disrupt their daily lives, they scatter and what was once "order" to them, turns in chaos. But after a few moments, they pick up the pieces and go right back to doing what they have always done.
This is exactly what humans do on a larger scale. After any kind of disaster... what we call order turns into fear and chaos...but we as a species do regroup and we recover.
I think we too have some sort of unseen hand that comes down disrupts us from time to time. Now I'm not saying that unseen hand is "god", but something more like we are to ants.
And to believe that, I would have to believe in things I cannot see, touch, feel or hear...something in another demension we cannot comprehend.
But I don't worry about it any more than the ants worry about me...it's just my place in nature.
Fish don't even know they are wet :(
Same kind of thing I am thinking
Don't drink water people, fish fuck in it... :/
(Sorry for offtopic, when Matt mentioned fish, I just had to say this!)