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Parallel Universes Are Real

Posted by jamie on from the dupe-from-another-universe dept.

It's in Scientific American, it must be true. This month's cover story: Parallel Universes. "The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here." That number's a lot bigger than 10 to the 101.42 meters, which are the farthest observable objects in what we call our universe. And anyway, twin or not, anyone outside my light-cone is dead to me. That's just a rule I have. If you're skeptical of the multiverse, go read our discussion of a similar article from two days ago.

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  1. I don't know about your eyes by dunedan · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I can see a lot farther than 10^1.42 meters

  2. Ace by rnicey · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Captain Ace Rimmer should be turning up any moment now?

    1. Re:Ace by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "So Captain Ace Rimmer should be turning up any moment now?"

      You bastard, I wanted to be the one to make the obscure Red Dwarf reference. You better hope I catch it at the dupe!

  3. Girls in the Perallel Universe by 00RUSS · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are the odds of me getting a date in this parallel univers? cause i dont want another place where hamburgers eat people and ./ love microsoft if i still cant get a date.

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  4. If my twin is reading this... by jeblucas · · Score: 4, Funny

    If my twin is reading this, but reading it when he's younger (could happen, article says "There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices;" then for crying out loud, make sure you get more than some over-the-sweater action from Amy L. back in what-was-my-1991. She'll go for it.

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    blarg.
    1. Re:If my twin is reading this... by jeblucas2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thanks for the tip.

    2. Re:If my twin is reading this... by breon.halling · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey... This is your younger self writing from another universe. I followed your advice and everything was going great. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a snag. Hmm... How can I put this? In your universe, is there a movie called "The Crying Game"?

      =)

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      "Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
  5. We will know that we have found it by cyber_rigger · · Score: 5, Funny


    when we find a humongous ball of mismatched socks that have traveled through the 4th dimension.

  6. Re:And, in one of these universes, by mz001b · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...there's a SLASHDOT where everyone LOVES Microsoft and hates Linux!

    yeah, but that site is called ccolonbackslash.com

  7. Re:10^10^1.42? by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just do it yourself using a calculator.

    10 ^ 1.42 = 26.302679918953819172897987967726
    10 ^ 26.302679918953819172897987967726 = 200761262891390934801701916.81189 metres, or to make it a lot easier to read, 200,761,262,891,390,934,801,701.91681189 Canadian kilometres, or in American dollars, about $2.

  8. Re:Probabilities and reality by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is no such thing as a probability of exactly 1 or exactly 0.

    This is a self-contradicting assertion, for if there were no such thing, then that means that the probability of that assertion being false is 0, which would make the statement false.

    Logically, probabilities of 1 and 0 exist, somewhere, only they may exist outside our current ability to perceive them.

    If I were to take a guess at something having a probability of zero, I'd say it would be something like a statement that was both 100% true and 100% false.

    My brain hurts. I'm going to bed.

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    File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
  9. Re:Scientific Omnirican by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was a fairly omni-ish article, but you gotta love the thumbnail pic of the "Multiverse", with the link below it: "Click here for a full-size illustration"

  10. Re:This doesn't make sense by L0k11 · · Score: 5, Funny
    no, because when your double does come to this universe he is going to kill you in order to make himself more powerful....

    hey, someone should make a movie about that... they could call it "the guy who travels into parallel universes to kill himself and get ultimate power"

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    "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything" -- Josef Stalin
  11. Don't scare me like that, damn it! by ubernostrum · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sitting here, finishing up my thesis which is due next week, happily talking about the argument from design and generally relying on the fact that the multiple-universes model is unverifiable and thus irrelevant to my argument. Then I take a break to glance at Slashdot and what do I see?

  12. Re:David Deutsch's theory by LiamQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a parallel universe in which you used multiple paragraphs so that people would read your comment completely?

  13. So you mean... by IroygbivU · · Score: 4, Funny

    There really is a universe where Homer is real, obscenely wealthy, AND it rains donuts!?!

  14. Re:Scientific Omnirican by ubernostrum · · Score: 4, Funny
    Happily, Nature has slid to where Scientific American was, and is now readable by meer mortals.

    I'm waiting for the day when it's readable by meerkats.