Parallel Universes Are Real

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 10^1.42 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.

Comments

Re:Religion

[Anonymous Coward]

Single minded? I'm sorry you were raised from birth on to believe what your parents taught you, without ever questionning. But a simple question that should make you sweat all night, which faith is the correct one: Bouddhism, Christianism, Islam, Hindhuism, Taoism? Are the raelians right? the scientologists? You DO have to chose, since they all contradict each other (even the bible says one thing and it's opposite). Or you could start thinking for yourself and not be sheep.

Why are we such dumbasses?

[bigberk]

Seriously, what makes us think that we even have the capacity to understand the universe, or whatever, in its entirety? Just because we know math? Holy crap. I've spent the past 5 years studying math & engineering and have some pretty good knowledge in quantum theory, and sometimes (i.e. NOW), and I get the pretty strong feeling that someone is just playing with numbers and equations.

Why can't we just do what we're best at... eating berries & stuff, sleeping, running around whacking rabbits, fscking a whole lot, etc. It can be a pretty good system.

Re:Buddhism and science tie together reasonably we

[operagost]

This one does not agree. You're parroting years of pure humanistic rubbish. The "dark ages" had many other causes, many of them caused by non-religious warfare and plague. Please also note that western knowledge was preserved by Christian scholars and monks during this time, despite the decidedly non-christian acts of supposedly Christian rulers who were merely lip-serving pagans. The West didn't come out of the dark ages empty handed. What you're saying is pure pluraistic, revisionist history.