Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes

The Telegraph ^ | 9/21/2007 | Roger Highfield

[mnehring]

Someone should give John Titor a buzz..

[CJ Wolf]

freak en nutz

[swatbuznik]

So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election....

[Nervous Tick]

>> Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists

Duh. Of course they do. That’s where the rest of your socks are. Occasionally your car keys spend a little time there, too.

[Inyo-Mono]

Whew!

[Joe 6-pack]

"So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election...."

Those universes aren't parallel to ours. They skew off at obtuse angles.

[mamelukesabre]

Infinite universes and paralell worlds?...I think these guys are lost in their own minds.

[SteveMcKing]

A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed.

Is that not "macro", not quantum? Or is this just an analogy he's making?

There was a recent theory put forward that, in fact, quantum principles do apply on a macro scale. For example, "Schrodinger's cat" is real, not just a model. And if a tree falls in the forest, it makes a sound AND it doesn't -- until something observes it... at which moment the outcome is determined by probability.

[DB]

I’m not buying.

[mtg]

I don’t see any evidence, much less proof, there are parallel universes.

[BallyBill]

You Earthlings are sooooooo Silly!

Parallel Universes?

[Bender2]

Re: Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes

Gadzooks! Mary Ellen White2... in the parallel universe, we did-- Go-- All-- The-- WAY!

[Shion]

>>So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election....<<

And Brazil finally accepted the Fuehrer’s “invitation” to join the Großdeutsches Reich in 2002.

[Duke Nukum]

On the Science Channel tomorrow afternoon about 05:00 PM Central time there is a show called Parallel Universe about M-Theory, it is very good. It makes the Big Bang Theory finally make some sense.

Still, a horrendous name for it.

[Larry Lucido]

Will our parallel universe have parallel parking?

Well we send each other messages via parallelograms?

[Lancey Howard]

[dragnet2]

But the "many worlds" idea has been attacked, with one theoretician joking that it is "cheap on assumptions but expensive on universes" and others that it is "repugnant to common sense."

Too funny.

[CJ Wolf]

If Al Gore won 2000. He’d win 2004, J. Kerry wouldn’t have won any thing in ‘0 nor be recognized. Heck he wouldn’t have even bin a contender. George Allen would have taken 2k4by storm.

If I’m gonna write re history.

[Duke Nukum]

So, in a parallel universe Al Gore won the election, John Kerry won the election....

Possibly, there's an infinite number of them so that makes it more likely. It's even possible in one parallel universe John F. Kerry signed is DD 180! How shocking is that!

In others, Pauly Shore has talent! But never gets any movies made in spite of it.