taken to the extreme i'm trying to say something like this: in an infinite number of these universes there is a device that eliminates all universes - that's all infinite universes wiped out. how so?
Perhaps such a device exists, but to operate it would require an infinite amount of energy.
Just because they're infinite doesn't mean each universe's internal rules and physical laws go away. Each existence must remain internally consistant to um... er, exist. For example, my "time travel" shenanigans as described above would still have to obey conservation of energy; thus an equal amount of energy and/or matter would have to be exchanged with the target universe should I want to go there.
HOW is a topic I will leave to the wild-eyed backyard physicists/engineers with too much time on their hands.
Anyway, if you want to discuss some of the fun theories about time travel and alternate dimensions/universes, lets do it, but don't try to pass it off as proven fact that these things really exist.
-Deozaan
Of course. I posted the initial article with a kind of tongue-in-cheek "wouldn't this be cool?" frame of mind firmly in place. I think mathematics is a form of mental masturbation until somebody comes along and actually
applies it. If you Google Dr. Deutsch you can quickly find all sorts of contrary opinion, much of it equally on solid ground.
Like I'm qualified to know. :-)
And a quick reminder to those who dismiss such fancy as mere Sci-Fi, remember that many things we take for granted now were at one time considered ridiculous to contemplate. Atomic energy, air travel, the nature of disease and the possibility of curing it. For awhile, it was "known fact" that man would never travel faster than a horse since the flow of oxygen would be cut off by the gale-force wind and he'd suffocate.
Of course, a large part of this has to do with my religious views, which I know are off-topic to this site, so I'll just summarize and say that if I believe there is a God who purposely created us all, I can't believe there are infinite copies of us in alternate dimensions. Those beliefs seem mutually exclusive to me.
Personally, I find no conflict with belief in God and alternate universes. Without triggering a religious discussion I too am spiritual, and believe that a beneficent creator left us with a wonderous universe to play in and learn. If the playground is bigger than we first imagined, even better.
If nothing else, the Multiple Universes theory neatly addresses the old queston, "why does God let bad things happen to good people?"
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