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World next door: Nine theories of the multiverse promise everything and more. But if reality is so vast and varied, where do we fit in?
So you could have an evil twin out there, and there could be unicorns...at one point the author says there might be Hells and gods and a Star Trek Universe.
It's hard to take this seriously, in light of:
We already have a few results in support of the Copenhagen Interpretation after all.
But you probably won’t know that (if their findings are taken to their logical conclusion) these machines have also detected hints that Elvis lives, or that out there, among the flaming stars and planets, are unicorns, actual unicorns with horns on their noses. There’s even weirder stuff, too: devils and demons; gods and nymphs; places where Hitler won the Second World War, or where there was no war at all. Places where the most outlandish fantasies come true. A weirdiverse, if you will. Most bizarre of all, scientists are now seriously discussing the possibility that our universe is a fake, a thing of smoke and mirrors.
So you could have an evil twin out there, and there could be unicorns...at one point the author says there might be Hells and gods and a Star Trek Universe.
It's hard to take this seriously, in light of:
The ‘many worlds’ interpretation of quantum physics was first proposed in 1957 by Hugh Everett III (father of Mark Everett, frontman of the band Eels). It states that all quantum possibilities are, in fact, real. When we roll the dice of quantum mechanics, each possible result comes true in its own parallel timeline. If this sounds mad, consider its main rival: the idea that ‘reality’ results from the conscious gaze. Things only happen, quantum states only resolve themselves, because we look at them. As Einstein is said to have asked, with some sarcasm, ‘would a sidelong glance by a mouse suffice?’ Given the alternative, the prospect of innumerable branching versions of history doesn’t seem like such a terrible bullet to bite.
We already have a few results in support of the Copenhagen Interpretation after all.