Escape from the Universe

rleyton writes "Prospect Magazine is carrying an excellent article "Escape from the Universe": The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe? The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology. Here's how to do it."

Comments

Isn't this a bit early?

[BerntB]

Couldn't we wait a few billions of years before we start consider this question seriously?

Re:Isn't this a bit early?

[Dominic Burns]

"I think a more pressing problem is limited habitability of Earth -- thousand years, tops?

I reckon you're way off the mark.

With the tools we have at the moment and the way we're handling them, I reckon we've got 50-odd years at the outside...assuming there isn't some catastrophic event between now and then, that is.

:)

Are we asking questions just to sound smart?

[pchan-]

The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe?

No. Anything that is reacheable from our universe is, by definition, part of the universe. The concept of "escape" has no meaning in this context.

Something to think about...

[SeaDour]

If there are an infintie number of parallel universes, why aren't there an infinite number of wormholes opening all over the place in our universe?

Re:These people....

[gordgekko]

Theory - The universe has existed for 13.7 billion years. It's a guess.

Fact - The existence of Jesus Christ is generally accepted by all scholars.

Please note, I'm an athiest but let's not go around making wild claims unless we want to turn science into a faith-based belief system.

Re:neat but....

[roseblood]

The idea behind paralell universes are that they are smilar to our own, but slightly diffrent, say, way back when Pangea was the place to be a meteor landed and cracked the mega continent, and in certain paralell universe the metor hit, but didn't crack the continent due to some serious english being placed on the rock when it fell (or whatever bullshit thing you can think of.) Fastforward 100million years and the dinosar killing rock hits ocean instead of land, so the big die-off isn't so big. Fastforward another 200 million, and dinosaurs still rule the earth and men still look like squirles. Small changes far back can mean a big thing today. Think using 2 bytes to store the value of a year vs 4. That's a y2k problem, or no y2k problem. It all would depend on when the parallel universes diverged, and the degree of divengence. A big diffrence only a few years old and you might not notice a diffrence in the overall universe, but a small diffrence that occured way back in the begining (like..oh..say... durring the big bang there was a discarded mayonase sanwich laying about.)