Agent Monkeysee on 25/7/2006 at 15:14
Quote Posted by * Überdonkey *
.The actual multiverse scenario isn't about extra dimensions, it's simply about extra universes, and there's no way of going from one universe to the other. I think it was proposed to account for the non-deterministic collapse of a wavefunction after a measurement: basically it says Quantum mechanics
is deterministic, because every different possibility occurs (and hence there's no chance involved). It's basically a cop out. This is off hand, though.
It's not really a cop-out because the multiverse was never intended to be a serious stab at explaining what's Really Going On. It was one of many interpretations of QM put forth by the original discoverers of it and was more of a thought experiment, like Shroedinger's Cat.
Mortal Monkey on 26/7/2006 at 03:46
<img src="http://www.magicbob2000.com/resources/ring%20up%20wand.gif" width=200 height=250 />
Para?noid on 26/7/2006 at 11:57
<a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8252705102362324792&q=mapping+the+universe">heh</a>
Universe is big
Renegen on 26/7/2006 at 15:53
Billions of galaxies x billions of stars = an answer we haven't been taught in school how to pronounce yet.
