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10-16-2009, 07:23 PM
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I've had a particularly ------ day, and am exhausted, so perhaps that's why I'm vexed. Do we know even 1% of what it would take to estimate such a large question?
Having said that, I enjoy reading these thongs immensely. http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...nate-universes Quote:
For some time, physicists have theorized about the existence of alternate universes. In fact, some models of physics require multiple universes, to explain some rarely observed phenomena. But, other than obvious ones like The Man In The High Castle Universe where the Nazis won WWII, the Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse Universe, and the Terran Empire "Mirror Mirror" Universe, just how many alternate universes are there? Well, some Stanford University physicists have answered that question, and the magic number is: 10^10^16 other realities.
The physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, calculated the number by first going all the way back to the Big Bang. Linde and Vanchurin posit that the stellar organization and physics of our universe resulted from small perturbations in the otherwise uniform mass of matter and energy that existed milliseconds after the Big Bang. So, the number of possible variations of those perturbations represents the upper limit of possible alternate universes, or about 10^10^10^7 possible alternate universes.
However, because of the physical limits of the human brain, no individual could perceive more than 10^10^16 realities different from our own. And since the perspective of the viewer factors into the calculations (like time dilation in relativity), that's the number of possible alternate universes.
Of course, that's the total number of POSSIBLE alternate universes. The number of ACTUAL alternative universes actually depends on depends on how many boxes the Professor made.
| Oh, any link featuring a pic of the evil [alternate universe] Spock is an instant win: 
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10-16-2009, 08:02 PM
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10-16-2009, 08:24 PM
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10-16-2009, 08:30 PM
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Having said that, I enjoy reading these thongs immensely.
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I enjoy reading thongs too 
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10-16-2009, 08:31 PM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | aaaaand... sounds like a load of hooplah to me.
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10-16-2009, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck Somewhere out there, there is a universe where the same physicist has computed 11^11^17 universes. | Damn...that's heavy. I never thought of that. |
10-16-2009, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by IconBasser aaaaand... sounds like a load of hooplah to me. | It is.
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10-16-2009, 11:21 PM
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10-17-2009, 06:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | ... and in one of those alternate universes, I am married to Jennifer Garner and just got hired as the touring bassist with Steely Dan.
I think whoever calculated that number needs to put down the bong and get back to work. |
10-17-2009, 10:23 AM
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yeah, really. There's a nice big Large Hadron Collider to play with in Switzerland and they're busy mucking about with alternate universes... for shame.
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10-17-2009, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bassrique Having said that, I enjoy reading these thongs immensely. | This thread is useless without pics.
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10-17-2009, 12:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | So there's a universe where they really called it the "Large Hardon Collider" instead?
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10-17-2009, 12:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | | well, that's cosmology for ya.
speaking of stanford cosmologists, i'm going to a colloquium given by leonard susskind on monday. |
10-17-2009, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Nazium ... and in one of those alternate universes, I am married to Jennifer Garner and just got hired as the touring bassist with Steely Dan.
I think whoever calculated that number needs to put down the bong and get back to work. | And in this universe Steely Dan is a VanHalen cover band 
I absolutely love the idea of theoretical physics. It makes you wonder how much these physicists are payed to ponder theses things. How do you even to begin to prove something like that and if you do, so what? |
10-17-2009, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bassrique | Spock's Beard is a really good group. |
10-17-2009, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | Here is the alternate universe Star Trek episode in full:
"Mirror Mirror"
Star Trek - The Original Series
Mirror, Mirror
Episode 4
Full Episode (50:25) http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_tre...IQ7l&play=true
My favorite ST episode evah.
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