11 Nov 2010, 2:15 pm
11 Nov 2010, 2:24 pm
wavefreak58 wrote:
Maolcolm wrote:
The Universe has already been scientifically established to be infinitely weirder than many of seem to realize or allow for
Amazingly freaking cool, isn't it?
Absolutely! I can't pretend to understand it all by any means, but I understand enough to have my mind thoroughly blown. Which is both a rather intimidating and thrilling experience.
11 Nov 2010, 2:49 pm
11 Nov 2010, 3:23 pm
Janissy wrote:
Yes. Weird things are sometimes true. This does not mean that if a thing is weird, it must be true.
Agreed. That's why I try to retain an open mind, rather than believing or rejecting.
Dismissing something as ridiculous and impossible because it "sounds weird" is as unreasonable as believing everything unquestioningly. Yet, most people do reject things unthinkingly if they "sound weird" and imagine they are somehow superior and more "realistic" than the believers and they feel validated by the numbers who share their view. This haughty 'herd mentality' often induces them to pour scorn and derision on the 'believers'. Yet both groups basically share the same irrational mental dynamic, just with different conclusions.
Having said that.... for the sake of amusing argument, it could perhaps be legitimately claimed that the Universe is so weird that every "weird thing" must be 'true'. The very size of the Universe may necessitate this this as does the Many Worlds theory.
Fun ideas to toy with
"The best current evidence is that the universe is infinite in size.... Once we allow the universe to be infinitely big, everything that has any chance of occurring must occur somewhere in the universe, in fact if must occur infinitely many times....
In an infinite universe, there would be an infinite number of stars basically identical to our Sun. Of those, only a tiny fraction would also have a planet the same size as Earth, but a tiny fraction of infinity is still infinity. Only a tiny fraction of those planets would be the same distance from their star as Earth is from the Sun. Only a tiny fraction of those would have a moon like our Moon. But that's still an infinite number.
Some could have life similar to Earth's life. Some could have life identical to humans. Some could have people absolutely identical to every person on Earth. I know, "not bloody likely", but you're missing the point. In an infinite universe, somewhere this will occur no matter how unlikely.
Somewhere out there, no doubt unimaginably far away, there is an identical Earth with twins of us all. In fact, there must be an infinity of identical Earths. On some of those identical Earths you stopped reading at this point and that world is no longer identical to ours. Spooky, huh?
Once you allow the universe to be infinite, every possibility, no matter how unlikely, must occur somewhere."
From: Mind Blowing Astronomy Ideas
"There are an infinite number of mes writing this, and an infinite number of yous reading it.
According to the current standard model of cosmology, the observable universe – containing all the billions of galaxies and trillions upon trillions of stars mentioned above – is just one of an infinite number of universes existing side-by-side, like soap bubbles in a foam. Because they are infinite, every possible history must have played out. But more than that, the number of possible histories is finite, because there have been a finite number of events with a finite number of outcomes. The number is huge, but it is finite. So this exact event, where this author writes these words and you read them, must have happened an infinite number of times.
Even more amazingly, we can work out how far away our nearest doppelganger is. It is, to put it mildly, a large distance: 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 28 meters. That number, in case you were wondering, is one followed by 10 billion billion billion zeroes"
From: Ten Weirdest Physics Facts.
"If you buy into the Many Worlds Theory, the implications are infinite. And let’s be clear about what “infinite” means here. For every action you’ve ever taken, every movement you’ve ever made, even down to the atomic level, there’s a parallel universe out there where you did something else instead. Anything else. Instead of learning guitar, you burst into flames. Instead of opening the fridge, you freebased black tar heroin. Instead of nude rock climbing, you went nude bungee jumping. Instead of reading this article, you worked productively and got a handsome raise. Think about it: in some parallel universe out there, you and your high school sweetheart are making hot, reconciliatory love atop Bob Feeney’s smoldering corpse after you killed a laser-breathing velociraptor with your bare hands. If that thought doesn’t make you feel better about how mundane your actual life is, we don’t know what will."
From: Five Scientific Theories....
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