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Mr_Bacon

Mr_Bacon · Jul 29, 2009

I saw a post called "Parallel Universes", but why limit them to being parallel? I think it's far more likely that there are other universes outside of our own that are not parallel, but have their own life-sustaining planets and whatnot.

passmeapen

passmeapen · Feb 12, 2010

The idea of various universes has been around for centuries no doubt, and really it would be ignorant and superficial of the human race to believe that our universe is the only that exists. If any one has read/seen Flatland, there is one point when the man from the 2-D world questions a 4-D world, and the sphere of the 3-D world tells him it is preposterous, that only crazy people in his world believe that. So honestly, I believe in other universes existing, even if no one can prove it.

Davidmartin

Davidmartin · Mar 21, 2010

Actually the idea of a 'multi-verse' is probably one of the earliest feats of the human imagination, don't get me wrong I am not saying that the whole thing is fictitious but if you think about it virtually every god-based religion has some version of a multiverse - God, a spiritual being, exists in the higher realm, i.e. the spirit realm (which can be translated as a four or five dimensional realm, hence our inability to understand it) and our souls are more or less part of it (or at least has an affinity to it) and our spirits go there when we die or it might go the other direction, depends. But ultimately the driving force behind such ideas stems more from human emotion than scientific reason - meaning that we think about and attempt to comprehend such things only because we as a species don't like the idea that the only creatures we can commune with look almost exactly like ourselves, goodness knows why we evolved thus, but Tolkien once said beautifully in 'The Silmarillion' I quote (though not perfectly):
-'Iluvatar put in the hearts of a men a desire to reach up and grasp at things which are greater than themselves'

Actually the idea of a 'multi-verse' is probably one of the earliest feats of the human imagination, don't get me wrong I am not saying that the whole thing is fictitious but if you think about it virtually every god-based religion has some version of a multiverse - God, a spiritual being, exists in the higher realm, i.e. the spirit realm (which can be translated as a four or five dimensional realm, hence our inability to understand it) and our souls are more or less part of it (or at least has an affinity to it) and our spirits go there when we die or it might go the other direction, depends. But ultimately the driving force behind such ideas stems more from human emotion than scientific reason - meaning that we think about and attempt to comprehend such things only because we as a species don't like the idea that the only creatures we can commune with look almost exactly like ourselves, goodness knows why we evolved thus, but Tolkien once said beautifully in 'The Silmarillion' I quote (though not perfectly):
[i]-'Iluvatar put in the hearts of a men a desire to reach up and grasp at things which are greater than themselves'[/i]

Francis Michael Buck

Francis Michael Buck · Apr 14, 2010

There's actually a lot of building evidence for the concept of a mulitverse. Aside from the fact that it single-handedly solves the problem of the Anthropic Principle, a lot of big ideas such as string theory and m-theory postulate the necessity of other (possibly infinite) universes existing. There's plenty of stuff about this on the internet. He's an article I just read recently that talks about it:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11745

In my opinion, it's pretty naive not to at least admit the POSSIBILITY of multiple universes. Humans have been repeatedly shown to underestimate the extent and size of reality. There was a time when we thought Mesopotamia or China was all of existence. Then we realized were just one planet circling around a star. Then we realized that star was one of billions in our incomprehensibly massive galaxy. Then in the early 1990's Hubble discovered that what we thought was the entire universe was in fact just one little part of a ridiculous huge number of other galaxies, all filled with other stars and planets. Is it so hard to imagine that our universe is just one of an infinite sea of mulitverses? Why not? It is existence after all, it can pretty much do whatever it wants.

There's actually a lot of building evidence for the concept of a mulitverse. Aside from the fact that it single-handedly solves the problem of the Anthropic Principle, a lot of big ideas such as string theory and m-theory postulate the necessity of other (possibly infinite) universes existing. There's plenty of stuff about this on the internet. He's an article I just read recently that talks about it:

[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11745[/url]

In my opinion, it's pretty naive not to at least admit the POSSIBILITY of multiple universes. Humans have been repeatedly shown to underestimate the extent and size of reality. There was a time when we thought Mesopotamia or China was all of existence. Then we realized were just one planet circling around a star. Then we realized that star was one of billions in our incomprehensibly massive galaxy. Then in the early 1990's Hubble discovered that what we thought was the entire universe was in fact just one little part of a ridiculous huge number of other galaxies, all filled with other stars and planets. Is it so hard to imagine that our universe is just one of an infinite sea of mulitverses? Why not? It is [i]existence[/i] after all, it can pretty much do whatever it wants.

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