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There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe

StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "Ever since quantum mechanics first came along, we've recognized how tenuous our perception of reality is, and how — in many ways — what we perceive is just a very small subset of what's going on at the quantum level in our Universe. Then, along came cosmic inflation, teaching us that our observable Universe is just a tiny, tiny fraction of the matter-and-radiation filled space out there, with possibilities including Universes with different fundamental laws and constants, differing quantum outcomes existing in disconnected regions of space, and even the fantastic one of parallel Universes and alternate versions of you and me. But is that last one really admissible? The best modern evidence teaches us that even with all the Universes that inflation creates, it's still a finite number, and an insufficiently large number to contain all the possibilities that a 13.8 billion year old Universe with 10^90 particles admits."

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  1. My lack of "Other Me" didn't get the first post by TomR+teh+Pirate · · Score: 1, Funny

    nt.

  2. Prove it! by mschaffer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Show me one other alternate universe. Is that so much to ask?

  3. Re:Damn!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There goes my alternates chance with Kate Upton.

    FYI: There's a theorem called the Universal Invariance of Supermodel Fornication in Closed Kleene-Star Domains which shows that with high probability, unless you've had sex with one in this universe the sum over all universes of the probability of you ever having sex with a supermodel is precisely zero.

    Laymen refer to the theorem by its acronym: UISFCK*D.

  4. Re:Except inflation by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what mirror universe Jesus would be like.

    Shaven, well manicured, free market capitalist homosexual libertarian??

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  5. But what about anti-You? by Megahard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember, if you meet anti-You, just bow, not shake hands.

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  6. Re:Except inflation by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I think Jesus in the mirror universe would be white instead of middle eastern.

  7. Re:Except inflation by networkzombie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your geek card has hereby been revocked.