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Author Topic:   Do you believe in a multiverse?
Mike Holland
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Message 10 of 45 (82971)
02-04-2004 5:21 AM


One version of the multiverse hypothesis is that every possibility split creates separate universes. For example, if you spin a coin, then the universe splits into one where it lands heads and one where it lands tails. This is a very simplistic example, and one has to dig into quantum theory to really grasp the idea of all possible things happening in one universe or another.
But this theory would imply that there is at least one universe where pennies always land heads, and there is no such thing as probability theory. I find this idea quite unacceptable, even as the wildest science fiction.
Mike.

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