I'm going to live forever.

[Haircut]

that theory is flawed, if there were inf universes then wouldnt there be 1 ( or lots) where they can travel to other universes and at least one of them would have visited here due to every possibility happening. there cannot be infinite universes or we would be overrun

Not necessarily.
This only deals with events happening within each universe, there is nothing to suggest that travel between universes is possible.
Of course it may be possible, but that doesn't mean they have been to every other universe.
We're just in a universe that they haven't visited as of yet.

And also, never read His Dark Materials, though it may be something that interests me if it deals with stuff like this.

So basically you're saying we are actually alive in parallel universes as well, just we don't know it?

Great, has no influence on this universe at all, so you aren't going to live forever in this universe, don't be too upset.

You haven't got the point though. You only ever experience universes in which you are alive, so theoretically you can never die.
There is no 'this universe' it's just what you're experiencing at the moment.
At each moment in time vast numbers of new universes are created.

 

[Gilly]

And also, never read His Dark Materials, though it may be something that interests me if it deals with stuff like this.

Exactly like this, though the characters never encounter themselves.

You haven't got the point though. You only ever experience universes in which you are alive, so theoretically you can never die.
There is no 'this universe' it's just what you're experiencing at the moment.
At each moment in time vast numbers of new universes are created.

You can only experience one universe unless you have a crossover.

 

[~>Dg<~]

didnt think you could co exist in same universe so its flawed..ill ask m j fox on his op or jet li.

 

[PurpleDinosaur]

As has been said, it's a nice little story but not something that's going to effect your life.

 

[Zogger]

I think you're all asking the wrong questions. The real question is if you have a child in two different universes and one is a girl named lisa, what is the probability that the child in the other universe is a boy.

And question b. What is the probability that the child in the other universe is named Julian?

 

[Haircut]

You can only experience one universe unless you have a crossover.

But, what is you though?

The universe you currently experience has a distinct history, but not a distinct future.
This is the key concept - the universes are splitting constantly due to the probabilities of Quantum Mechanics.
You only remember things that have happened in the universe you're currently in but then this diverges to form all the possible different outcomes in the future.

I'm probably explaining this really badly, but you only experience the universes in which you're alive.

 

[Gilly]

didnt think you could co exist in same universe so its flawed..

If there's crossovers, of course you could. Every choice has a universe, there are infinite (or finite) possibilities.

I'm probably explaining this really badly, but you only experience the universes in which you're alive.

You really are You, ie the person I am talking to in my Universe only ever experiences this Universe unless you cross over to another Universe.

There may be some arbitrary person in another Universe somewhere that has made the same choices you have until some time next week, but it isn't you. Even if some other arbitrary Gilly is talking to him in exactly the same way at exactly the same time.

 

[Sonea Fifer]

There can be only one Highlander.

golden compass springs to mind.film is apalling

Slightly off topic but i watched the new Highlander movie (straight to dvd) The Source last night - if anyone else is thinking about watching it i've got one word of advice.

Dont ! ! !

Back on topic - dont think i'd want to live for ever, imagine the tax i'd have to pay

 

[gord]

But, what is you though?

The universe you currently experience has a distinct history, but not a distinct future.
This is the key concept - the universes are splitting constantly due to the probabilities of Quantum Mechanics.
You only remember things that have happened in the universe you're currently in but then this diverges to form all the possible different outcomes in the future.

I'm probably explaining this really badly, but you only experience the universes in which you're alive.

Considering i can only ever tell that i am experiencing the universe i am experiencing this is a particularly irrelevant concept is it not?

Great.. my parallel bretherin are alive in some other universe..

 

[Gilly]

Considering i can only ever tell that i am experiencing the universe i am experiencing this is a particularly irrelevant concept is it not?

Great.. my parallel bretherin are alive in some other universe..

Yeah, but they experience their own Universe!

 

[PurpleDinosaur]

It's another one of these random theories that cannot be proven wrong nor right, and really has no bearing on our lives whatsoever, so is completely pointless.

 

[weringo]

Hold on a second - isn't it EXTREMELY unlikely that you'll even exist in the other universises if you consider the infinate number of possibilities of what could have happened before you were even born?

 

[pyro]

That used to facisnate me as a kid.

I'm going to live forever.... or die trying.

Ah, another skydiver at the forums

Sup mate?

 

[Haircut]

Hold on a second - isn't it EXTREMELY unlikely that you'll even exist in the other universises if you consider the infinate number of possibilities of what could have happened before you were even born?

Agree completely, the fact remains though that for those universes where you weren't born you wouldn't be alive to make the observation.

This is a variant on the Anthropic Principle (googling it provides some good links)

 

[Mat]

Hold on a second - isn't it EXTREMELY unlikely that you'll even exist in the other universises if you consider the infinate number of possibilities of what could have happened before you were even born?

For every one of those, there is an infinite number where you were born...

 

[Gilly]

For every one of those, there is an infinite number where you were born...

Finite.

 

[Mat]

Finite.

Not if there is an infinite number of other universes.

 

[chiggz]

That used to facisnate me as a kid.

same here!!!

 

[helmet]

If the combined this theory with the Back to the Future film scipt that would make one hell of a remake .

 

[Gilly]

Not if there is an infinite number of other universes.

Who says there is though?

If there is an infinite number of Universes then everything would be mirrored exactly, and not mirrored exactly. It doesn't fit in with the many-worlds theory, which is what this thread is about.