Is there really a parallel universe?

[BobbyBoring]

I was reading about quantum jumping the other day. For those unfamiliar with QJ, it's a theory that goes something like this. You decide to make a left turn at an intersection instead of a right. You are severely injured, lets say paralyzed for life. The theory as I understand it claims that a parallel universe exists that you would be in had you made a right instead of the fatefully left and, IF you master QJ, you can go there.

This made me start wondering if there really is another universe that the far right lives in that is connected to ours somehow. I just can't understand their total disconnect with reality. They cling to things that are just absurd.

Is there a "Twilight Zone" here in America?

[Lucinda]

1. It would explain a lot.

I often feel like I must be a different species - parallel universe would be a simpler answer. :)

[Taverner]

2. Quantum Physics, specifically string theory equally supports as well as negates it

[cliffordu]

11. LOL......

:rofl:

Very good.

[itsrobert]

14. Does that mean if there was a parallel universe that was opposite of our reality

than in their reality there wouldn't be a parallel universe because they are opposite?

[Duer 157099]

31. I think you've finally explained it for me

I've wondered why we are trapped in this particular universe, and I think you've just explained it. *This* is the parallel universe where it's impossible to transit to the other universes.

Crap.

[roguevalley]

39. I felt it when Bush v Gore happened. the universe pivoted to the right

and we live in stupidville now. it doesn't atmospherically feel the same to me, as if I put on a shirt made of razor blades. i don't know how to explain it better.

[Taverner]

43. Something happened to this country in 2000

Although many argue that in 1963 there was a similar polar shift

1980 is also a year that will live in infamy

[Motown_Johnny]

15. I am going to have to use that one

Thanks!

[ReggieVeggie]

35. sounds equivalent to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

mebbe si o mebbe no

[Taverner]

37. That's pretty much what I'm going on

The world may never know -

[RKP5637]

3. I'm convinced the far RW lives in a parallel universe, but unfortunately the rest of

us can see and hear them.

[Initech]

4. I've often wondered if they really do live on another plane of existence.

[CountAllVotes]

5. having been there briefly, yes there is one

It is a good place btw. I was there for a few days when I almost died in 2009. My late parents were there and they were just fine. :)

I always wondered if there was such a place until I ended up there.

It was quite odd after wards. I was "stuck" in-between that place and here for a long time. Why I'll never know until I end up back there again I suspect.

[skepticscott]

6. I often think that it would have been better

to let the parallel universe that was the Confederate States of America go their own way and take a lot of those crazies and their descendants with them.

[white_wolf]

7. As long as the U.S.

is willing to provide amnesty and citizenship for those of us who are stuck here, but in no agree with our ancestors and pretty much despise the whole "South will rise again" bullcrap.

[MineralMan]

8. Not as you're thinking about it, no.

In terms of physics, it's possible, but you can't get there from here.

[Uncle Joe]

19. Perhaps after dying we go to one, this might account for some of those deja vu feelings. n/t

[MineralMan]

20. Dunno. I've seen no evidence of that, so I have no opinion on the

matter. I don't believe so, though.

[Uncle Joe]

21. I haven't seen evidence of anything after death but if there are parallel universes,

this seems logical to me.

[MineralMan]

23. I guess I can't see that it matters. I'm a simple atheist.

I was born because two cells got together. I'll die, and that will be that. In the meantime, I have a few decades of life to make the most of. Everything else seems irrelevant to me, somehow. I'll leave the worrying about supposed after-lives to someone else. I don't have time for that now.

[Uncle Joe]

25. I'm of the belief there is some form of universal intelligence, but I'm not suggesting that

it's human centric.

I don't worry about it though, so much as a point of philosophical discussion.

Peace to you.

[RKP5637]

38. Some people spend more time in life worrying about a supposed afterlife and trying

to convince others to think just like them than the reality they are currently living in ... they can worry about the afterlife, I'll worry about making the one I'm living in better for others and myself. I'm with you on this!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

41. This is what I thought, too

[timtom]

30. "can't get there from here"

So, do you suppose the parallel universe is somewhere in Maine?
Ayuh!

[MineralMan]

34. No, actually the gateway to it is in Baudette, MN.

It's been there for years, but nobody ever goes to Baudette, so it remains little known. If you go there, try the third stall in the Men's room at the Baudette International Airport (BDE). Just as a matter of interest, it's an international airport because they have a couple of flights a day into Canada. Wave your hand three times in front of the infrared flusher and you'll be transported. The last time I tried it, though, I ended up in the same place I started, but the walls in the room were slighly greener. I couldn't tell much of a difference between the two universes. I suppose there might have been a different result on another try, but I was content with the new color, so I left.

Who knows, though...you might have different results and end up in a better universe. Good luck!

P.S.: There are no regularly scheduled airline flights in or out of BDE, so you can't get to that international airport on any airline. Odd, that. You can go to International Falls, though, and rent a car and drive to Baudette to use the inter-universal portal there.

[timtom]

45. LOL!

[Bosonic]

9. No, there's 10^500 of them

[Ezlivin]

10. I made the left turn and ended up paralyzed for life

I thought your example was ironic.

I've also thought that a parallel universe was "spawned" at that moment.

Boy, do I envy the other guy. But, hey, maybe he died in the accident?

[Lindsey]

17. For those of you interested in this concept, IMO, "The Elegant

Universe" is a MUST see. "The Elegant Universe" started out as a book by Brian Greene (a physics and mathematics professor at Columbia)and then he came out with the DVD's (which I preferred to the book). I re-watched them the other night. The focus is String Theory and in my mind, it explains a lot.

[LuvNewcastle]

32. That is a great book.

There are parts of it that I don't understand, but I gained some basic knowledge about quantum physics and I was entertained as well. I pick the book up from time to time and go over parts that I didn't understand before.

[DJ13]

12. Im of two minds about this

[RC]

13. Nothing so complicated or theoretical.

It is a miswiring in the brain that distorts their perceived reality or does not allow reality to be real for them.
They have trouble telling their own fantasizes from reality. Their leaders (Rush, etc.) know this and dispense the daily talking points. Lacking any real critical thinking skills, the very seldom question what they are being told by their leaders.
Hence the lies, revisionist history as fact, their strange simplistic answers to complicated problems and never being at fault for anything they are guilty of.

[Rex]

16. No, there are multiple realities.

In my favorite one, I am OMGZ RULERZ! of all cats in the cat universe version of humans! OMGZ!

[DavidDvorkin]

18. There's a parallel universe in which Qadaffi is the victim of an imperialist Western oil grab

And it seems to be leaking into our universe right here on DU.

[unblock]

22. yes, but parking's a bitch.

[Turbineguy]

24. But if those on the right

lived in a parallel universe how would we find out about it? Or more to the point why would we find out about it?

[ThoughtCriminal]

26. Welcome to the Mirror Mirror Universe

This is the one where Spock will have a beard.

[pokerfan]

27. Quantum immortality ain't all it's cracked up to be

For evidence I offer up http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/divided-by-infinity">this short story by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Wilson">Robert Charles Wilson.

[rucky]

28. Tom Tomorrow made a cartoon about this...

[JeffersonChick]

29. Mind-blowing, ain't it? n/t

[Neodymium]

33. The "many worlds" model

In theoretical physics, quite a few scientists adhere to the "many worlds" model. According to this model, numerous worlds coexist just like radio stations on a frequency band. So, somewhere out there a version of you could be asking "Is there really only one universe"? Another version of me out there then could tell you about the "single world" model. Perhaps all four of us in those two different worlds will think "No, that's crazy."

[EstimatedProphet]

36. Yes, and we're stuck in it.

[rug]

40. GDP

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. Yes and no, Heissenberg's cat

and string theory.

It gets really REALLY weird.

[MilesColtrane]

44. That's Schrödinger's cat.

Heisenberg's cat just can't be located with precision. He's not in two states at once.