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Dozo
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Dozo asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 10 years ago

If parallel universes exist, is the number countable?

Taking quantum mechanice. Assume that God does not throw dice and parallel universes exist. Surely their number must be infinite, but would it be countable infinite or uncountable infinite?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    The idea of parallel universes is, to me, a lateral arabesque. It is a logical maneuver for people who cannot accept the wave, and thus indeterminate, nature of reality.

    The reality appears to be that we cannot conceptualize what we observe and what we can experimentally verify at the sub-atomic level,, and that is not a very satisfactory end-game for people who want to understand reality.

    So we have come up with a fairly absurd alternative that does satisfy them. I mean! You would need an alternative universe not just when you did or did not win a lottery. You would need an alternative universe for every change in state, for example of every electron. No! You would need an infinite number of universes for every time an electron changed state, since an electron can end up in an infinite number of different states. That would end up being quite a high order of infinity! Undoubtedly "uncountable" by any definition.

  • 10 years ago

    But the dice are thrown continually... that's the nature of QM. That's why A. Einstein disliked QM, the dice throwing.

    There is no such thing as countable infinite (even if you had eternity to do it in). Countable implies some sort of numeric characteristic, like interval or relative value. Infinity is not a number; it's a concept.

    Some beyond the big bang theories (there are about 1/2 dozen legitimate ones) envision infinite and eternal branes or high entropy space-time that continually spawns low entropy universes over that infinite and eternal space-time. So even though there might not be an uncountable number of low entropy universes at any given moment, over infinite space and time the number would be uncountable. [See source.]

    Source(s): "Beyond the big bang" on the Science Channel, 6/13/2011.
  • 10 years ago

    Naw, everyone knows there is 1337 Universes in total, only 42 of them being parallel, e.g Say you are alive and your mother is dead, in another universe, your dead and she is alive. There are 42 different versions on yourself, the names and gender may change but birth date and DNA origins and existant remain the same. The chances of there being infinite universes is highly impossible, as even the vastness of space has a storage area, just like your computer you are using right now, it can only hold so much data, each of us and each planet being a tiny existance in that data e.g a GIF file we never use. God being the memory stick in this, with his vast amount of knowledge and power we assume he has, even a superior to a demi-god can only have so much power, and the power of a God is not infinite, it can't make universe after universe, otherwise nothing would be in check and our universe would probably launch into a nyan cat aplocolypse.

  • 10 years ago

    just saw a show that thought QM was proof of a soul. ? I think of equal / oppisit points.. like flipping over a 3D model

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