On 11/20/2014 9:05 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
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...there are any number of channels and New Age-y types who claim
there are multiple dimensions all over the place.
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/Thanks for posting this. You have really contributed a lot to this
conversation. Very impressive. Good work. Apparently you are very
familiar with this subject, one of the favorite themes in science
fiction and fantasy, by some of our greatest writers.
You do realize that one of the main supporters of the multiverse
hypotheses is Stephen Hawking, right?///
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*From:* salyavin808 <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:18 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: When Worlds Collide....
---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re"The multiverse is a theory . . . I don't see why atheists would use
this theory to support their idea that there is no God.":
There is no evidence for there being any multiverses - it is as much a
leap of faith as believing in God. The "God option" really means you
have trust in whatever is unfolding.
There might be soon. David Deutsch, who runs the quantum computing lab
at Oxford, makes the case that multiverse theories are the simplest
way of explaining quantum theory. Most other physicists disagree due
to lack of evidence but he intends to prove it using a virtual reality
program of an atom running on a quantum computer.
I don't fully get what he's going on about but apparently there is a
way that quantum computers can reveal how they work while they are
doing computations about themselves (!), this will tell us a lot about
what sort of universe we live in. All we need is a computer we don't
have yet that exploits Qbits, the ability of things in the quantum
world to be in potentially two, or more, places at once. But they are
on the way. I get the impression that if he pulls it off he'll be the
most famous scientist since Einstein but it's a long way away. But
quantum computing is the future whatever it tells us.
But as I said in another post, this in't the multiverse you are
talking about but they might be provable - should they exist. Maybe
cosmologists should just start again. Wouldn't be the first time...
