h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A parallel universe is easy to imagine if you know what it is but for those who don’t have any idea what it is it is a very hard thing to try to explain to them. You tell them it’s another universe that is created by you choosing to do one thing instead of another, the things that you don’t do which is a heck of a lot when you sit down and think of the number of things that you could do at any point in time. So for each of the things that you could do it is done in another universe that just appears some how. This is the part that people don’t get, how can me not doing something create another universe? It is a very hard question to answer indeed because we have a very small understanding of what a parallel universe really is, it could be outside our galaxy or within our own or just mm away from us in another plane of existence and if u where able to see all of them at once you would see an infinite number of yourself moving around in there day to day lives having absolutely no idea that they are just part of another persons life that didn’t happen, we our selves are most probably a universe of something that someone else didn’t do in there universe.

So this means that its not only just what I don’t do but also the things that I didn’t do in my universes of things I didn’t do and so on, I only went out two because it gives you quite a headache trying to thing of what to put down.

Now a parallel universe can be almost identical to ours even flawless accept that the you in that universe moved his finger a little bit to the left as he was reading this as you are doing now, and as most of you reading this probably went and moved your finger to the left so that, that universe wasn’t created another one was created where you didn’t do it and also where you moved it to different distances so no matter what you do you cant stop them from being created, so some are of very little difference and some of unimaginable difference such as if people thousands of years ago came to their senses and stopped fighting each other for their land and worked together to make developments in science, astronomy and aviation we might be living in several different planets across the universe and have already come in contact with intelligent life forms. But we happen to be in the universe where they didn’t come to their senses and are still fighting to this day.

Alright so we now understand what a parallel universe is but haven’t even scratched the surface of the question “how do we create them by not doing something?” because everything that has ever been created has been done by doing something but this is something for nothing (pretty good deal when you think about it)

But how they are formed i dont know.... yet

Thing is, dude, you've never observed any sign of these other universes. Might as well imagine another universe like this except that everything is purple! There's just no reason to suppose that it exists.

i saw an article in bbc homepage saying they have found substantial proof of a parallel universe

there are an infinite number of p.u.'s...existing, not in another place, but, right here, right now...you are "in" every parallel universe right this second. further, every action in every p.u., creates an infinite number of additional p.u.'s...further still...beyond "right now", nothing exists...tne infinite number of possibilities...which is what a p.u. is...only exists this instant. fer instance...when i started this sentence, there were an infinate number of possibilities, and they all existed simultaneously at that instant. that instant no longer exists, so it stands to reason that the infinity of p.u.'s that existed at that instant are no more...into nothingness, as it were.

Substantial proof eh! Could you provide a link to it please.

yes, i also would be interested in any "proof" that may exist...either in this universe or any other!

back to the "proof" thing...actually, in quantum physics, there is an abstract proof that p.u.'s do exist...i believe it was in an experiment having to do with wave/particle duality...all matter, shot through an electron gun, existed as a wave, i.e., in all universes...only when the experiment was observed, did the wave become a particle...i.e., one universe...it's called the collapse of the wave function...which is how you are only aware of "this" universe...just as you are only aware of "this" universe in the infinate number of universes where you exist...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml

enjoy

hey bix i was thinking about what u said about them only existing at the moment, i must dissagree. I havnt got any proof to back me up but that would mean that there would be no universe where i was totaly difernt or where the world is differnt, also arnt u just refering to the wave/particle duality thing u told me about? If so then how can we be certain that the others go away and dissapear? They could just be living in another plane of existence.

Hey as u were saying about them existing right here next to us, then if u did something that affected me in no way at all, then in ur p.u's i would be in the exact same place as i am now, 100% the same

also i was thinking about something, our universe may only have been created a few second's ago, we wouldnt realise it and have no idea that it had just happened, so what could u call the original universe? could it be posible that the original universe is the "corect one" where everything is perfect, and every other p.u. is just an inperfect universe which is quite easy to believe, we may be the original universe, earth may also be the center of the universe and controled by little white mice

Imagine every moment of your life is all there is.how do you know that whats in your memory actualy happened or that what you think will happen next is just a picture painted by the current set up of the chemicals in your brain, or are you anything more than the current thought in your head.
All that you are and all that you know are the product of outside influence to your brain.
How do you know your sences are telling you the truth, how do you know you are anything more than just a brain (matrix) or a single moment.
Then think of time as a series of these moments strung together in a specific order, passing from one to the next.
How do you know they are in the correct order, and do they have to be if the moments all exist,possibly with a memory of the
past and and idea of the future? assuming you are not simply the current thought in your head.
If everything is made up of the same stuff, ie electrons etc, energy in different states? then each moment is purely energy
and anything that makes a moment specific to you is just the order these moments occur in.
Many "individuals" could be passing through the "i'm hungry" moment at any one "time?"
In effect, everything, parallel universes included is/are just fluctuations in energy patterns causing the "appearance" of moments and the ilusion of linear time as a progression between them.

(i'm making this up as i go along, by stringing together a bunch of things i've herd from various sources so some may sound familliar, certain words my not have been used in the correct scientific context,
and it may all be complete rubbish, or just the thought of a moment?)

CF

well all my imfo is based on my own oppinions so i dont know how close to fact they are, but its really amazing to put something down on the net, then a few nights later, while reading something else written by a proffesional who is a genious, and he had the thing as i wrote down, makes me feel smart, espially since im only 14

Maybee the genious thought of it when he was 14 and has been trying to come to terms with it ever since?
Just had to become old and famous before someone would take him seriously.
You could be in a better position to come up with more original ideas because all the current "facts" won't be so firmly ingrained yet.

CF

interesting point, but i dont only know stuff on P.U's also, i know heaps of physics and maths, i can do a rubix cube in under 2 minutes every time and i have a photographic memory, i memorized 220 digits of pi off by heart because i was bored

interesting point, but i dont only know stuff on P.U's also, i know heaps of physics and maths, i can do a rubix cube in under 2 minutes every time and i have a photographic memory, i memorized 220 digits of pi off by heart because i was bored

Hi, Iffy. It's kinda hard to be sure, especially with a memory like yours, that you aren't remembering the idea you seem to have just thought of. The idea of parallel universes has been around at least since the quantum theory pioneers of about a hundred years ago.

Or it could just be another occurence of the "moment" occuring in a random order as a direct result of fluctuations in background energy states (and probably sunspots)
I used to be able to make a Rubiks cube last for ages, much better value for money.
CF

If our universe is infinite, how can other universes be parallel to us? Unless they are also infinite and somewhere they melt into our universe, which would make our universe finite. Which makes no sence what so ever. Unless you wanted to twist things and say it is only infinite to the west but there are paralell universes to the east, south and north. Which makes me even more confused. But it's best to ignore me because it IS 11:30 at night I am watching cartoon reruns of Bugs Bunny and Tweety show oh and I'm twelve and I am usually in bed two hours earlier than now.

the universe isnt infinite, if you are looking at my name, notice the work "IF"

Perhaps some one last read a book written by Mr Hawkins?
Any one familliar with A book called guide around here?
Its national_book_something_on_tele date on BBC, hint.

Be Sure there are parralel universes. As in the name it is your
universal existance platform. And you wont be able to see all of the universes as they are not yours. The only proof can be found in the thought. Think about one, does it exist in your mind?

I will come back to this to finish up my writing, just got a message to join the wedding of my sister in the Orion nebula on the Yggdrasyl.