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| Brian Cox: 'Multiverse' makes sense | |
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| CJ | Sep 23 2014, 10:52 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29321771 The presenter and physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time. The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists. It is a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics - which describes the often counter-intuitive behaviour of energy and matter at small scales. Prof Cox made the comments during an interview with Radio 4's The Life Scientific programme. In a famous thought experiment devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, a cat sealed inside a box can be both alive and dead at the same time. Or any combination of different probabilities of being both dead and alive. I've heard about this 'Multiverse' idea before, and I think it's interesting. However, I don't know enough about physics or cosmology to begin to guess how plausible it is !
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| Zero Revolution | Sep 24 2014, 02:11 AM Post #2 |
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Yeah, me neither, but I do think the idea of a multiverse existing is interesting. Is it possible we could come in contact with these other realities if they really do exist? I'd like to see all of the different possibilities with each universe. But that will almost certainly not happen, at least in my lifetime anyway.
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| CJ | Sep 24 2014, 06:40 AM Post #3 |
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Probably not. I expect they'd be in some higher dimension which is permanently inaccessible to us. Perhaps our only chance would be to risk a trip through a black hole .
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| Kamineigh | Sep 24 2014, 05:26 PM Post #4 |
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Black holes do not lead anywhere. You mean a wormhole. Even then, wormholes don't lead out of our own universe. |
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| CJ | Sep 24 2014, 07:57 PM Post #5 |
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Actually, there are some scientists who believe that black holes could be portals to other universes: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/black-holes-are-portals-to-other-universes-according-to-new-quantum |
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| Zero Revolution | Sep 25 2014, 02:16 AM Post #6 |
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^ While that would be cool, wouldn't you just be warped to death by going through a black hole?
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