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Author Topic:   Why Parallel Universes?
The Dread Dormammu
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Message 61 of 67 (153189)
10-26-2004 10:45 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by SoulSlay
10-26-2004 8:34 PM


Second interpretaion
I thought it would be a good idea to post a second response based on the other interpretation of traveling back in time.
In this theory when you travel back in time to kill your father you are realy traveling to a parallel universe, one in whitch your father is killed by you. If you kill him a person with your name will not be born and indeed your mother will be alone for the rest of her life etc (unless she finds someone else etc). But if you could find some way to travel BACK to your own original universe you father would still be alive and well.

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Bopopop
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Message 62 of 67 (154471)
10-30-2004 5:45 PM


Other places could exist or not. If one could go into one, they would have to somehow leave this reality.

  
Mission for Truth
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Message 63 of 67 (155250)
11-02-2004 3:31 PM


If Dr.X could go to another universe, contained in our own multiverse, I wonder if that would set off a weird universal imbalance. That is assuming of course no other being has already done this and not already started the imbalance.

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The Dread Dormammu
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Message 64 of 67 (156688)
11-06-2004 3:42 PM
Reply to: Message 63 by Mission for Truth
11-02-2004 3:31 PM


I'm not shure what you mean
If Dr.X could go to another universe, contained in our own multiverse, I wonder if that would set off a weird universal imbalance. That is assuming of course no other being has already done this and not already started the imbalance.
What kind of imbalance? Are we still discussing the possibilities of time travel? Are you suggesting that if "Dr. X" traveled into a parralell universe he would disrupt it's "time line?" I don't think so, the two explinations for time travel I have discussed are ways to avoid paradoxes (is that what you mean by imbalance?).
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Mission for Truth
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Message 65 of 67 (156935)
11-07-2004 10:35 AM


Yeah, sorry about that I wasn't really following along with whatever the thread was talking about. I was just suggesting that if it was even possible that "Dr. X" could visit another version of himself in the closest parallel universe to ours it could maybe throw everything out of balance. Ever see "The One" with jet lei?

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The Dread Dormammu
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Message 66 of 67 (157762)
11-09-2004 8:22 PM
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11-07-2004 10:35 AM


Ugh "The One"
Ever see "The One" with jet lei?
Yes I have seen that movie.
It was never explained why The jumper gained stength and power when his alternate selves died off. If that were true why don't we all become super powerful around 86 when our alternate selves are dying of old age? In a similar way How could paralell universes become "imbalanced" by travelers?

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Mission for Truth
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Message 67 of 67 (157956)
11-10-2004 11:08 AM


Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I don't think parallel universes work that way anyway. From what I understand, for example, if you had a die and you rolled it you will end up with a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. Whatever it lands on, let's say 3... or in my case 1. All of the other options that didn't happen split into different universes the second the result happened. We don't notice this splitting happening because we are in our own universe and we can't actively perceive this happening. This also happens anytime we are faced with a decision and choose accordingly.
To explain more clearly I'll quote from Scientific American, May 2003. "Imagine an ideal die whose randomness is purely quantum. When you roll it the die appears to land on a certain value at random. Quantum mechanics, however, predicts that it lands on all values at once. One way to reconcile these contradictory views is to conclude that the die lands on different values in different universes. In one sixth of the universes, it lands on 1; in one sixth, on 2, and so on. Trapped within one universe we can perceive only a fraction of the full quantum reality."
So, I don't think people can visit themselves in another universe because I just dont think it works that way. But, I like that point of yours about people getting old. Although, maybe when they get too old and die they have no "power" left anyway?

  
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