Shortly after noon local time. Hello,
Richard, this is Amorella. You finished your exercises and cleaned up within
the last hour. You and Carol are both feeling better today with few symptoms of
your illness. In fact you both slept in the same bed most of the night and
neither one of you with fits of coughing; a much more restful night’s sleep.
1208 hours. I haven’t seen your name in the
introduction for a long time; brings back memories of the late eighties and
nineties. This reminds me – I was thinking about the dimensions described
yesterday and wondering if you, as a persona I suppose, lean towards one
description or another related to our immediate mental environs?
You are not stating yourself accurately here
but you are not sure what you are attempting to express. Let’s go back to the
Multiverse article. - Amorella
1229
hours. I am surprised. As I reread the edited article you chose to bold certain
statements. I assume you would like them to be dropped in here for my further thought.
You are correct, Mr. Watson. Drop them in as
they are ordered and separate and number each. – Amorella
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Amorella on “Multiverse” from Wikipedia
!. Introduction
Multiple universes have been
hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, religion, philosophy,
transpersonal psychology and fiction, particularly in science fiction and
fantasy. In these contexts, parallel universes are also called "alternate
universes", "quantum universes", "interpenetrating
dimensions", "parallel dimensions", "parallel worlds",
"alternate realities", "alternate timelines", and
"dimensional planes," among others.
2. Max
Tegmark's four levels
Level I: Beyond our cosmological
horizon
Tegmark
estimates that an identical volume to ours should be about 1010115
meters away from us. Given infinite space, there
would, in fact, be an infinite number of Hubble volumes identical to ours in
the Universe. This follows directly from the cosmological principle, wherein it
is assumed our Hubble volume is not special or unique.
Level
III: Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
In
effect, all the different "worlds" created by "splits" in a
level III multiverse with the same physical constants can be found in some
Hubble volume in a level I multiverse.. . .
Tegmark
writes that "The only difference between Level I and Level III is where
your dopplelgängers reside. In Level I they live elsewhere in good old
three-dimensional space. In Level III they live on another quantum branch in
infinite-dimensional Hilbert space."
3. Anthropic
principle
The
concept of other universes has been proposed to explain how our own universe
appears to be fine-tuned for conscious life as we experience it. If there were
a large (possibly infinite) number of universes, each with possibly different
physical laws (or different fundamental physical constants), some of these
universes, even if very few, would have the combination of laws and fundamental
parameters that are suitable for the development of matter, astronomical
structures, elemental diversity, stars, and planets that can exist long enough
for life to emerge and evolve. The weak anthropic principle could then be
applied to conclude that we (as conscious beings) would only exist in one of
those few universes that happened to be finely tuned, permitting the existence
of life with developed consciousness.
4. Examples of criticisms
*
For a
start, how is the existence of the other universes to be tested? To be sure,
all cosmologists accept that there are some regions of the universe that lie
beyond the reach of our telescopes, but somewhere on the slippery slope between
that and the idea that there are an infinite number of universes, credibility
reaches a limit. — Paul Davies, A Brief History of the Multiverse
*
Parallel
universes may or may not exist; the case is unproved. We are going to have to
live with that uncertainty. Nothing is wrong with scientifically based
philosophical speculation, which is what multiverse proposals are. — George
Ellis, Scientific American, Does the Multiverse Really Exist?
*
A common
feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most
elegant theory involves parallel universes by default. To deny the existence of
those universes, one needs to complicate the theory by adding experimentally
unsupported processes and ad hoc postulates: finite space, wave function
collapse and ontological asymmetry. Our judgment therefore comes down to which
we find more wasteful and inelegant: many worlds or many words. Perhaps we will
gradually get used to the weird ways of our cosmos and find its strangeness to
be part of its charm. — Max Tegmark, Scientific American, Parallel Universes
*
5. Multiverse hypotheses in philosophy and logic
Trans-world
identity
A
metaphysical issue that crops up in multiverse schema that posit infinite
identical copies of any given universe is that of the notion that there can be
identical objects in different possible worlds. According to the counterpart
theory of David Lewis, the objects should be regarded as similar rather than
identical.
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Selected and edited from
Wikipedia – Multiverse
** **
1249
hours. I see the logic.
Carol’s request was Cracker Barrel for an
early supper since she slept longer than she attended. You are on the way home,
stopping at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road. As it is a cold but bright sunny
afternoon you took the Avalon to make the ride a bit more special. – Amorella
1642 hours. It is refreshing once in a while to drive
it around town, but it is certainly not necessary. Both cars have been washed
and still have a clean appearance, which with the road salt slurry and dirt is
almost a prerequisite or else we end up washing our coats more often after they
brush up against the stuff when the cars are in the garage. I have not tried
communicating with you by the side door, so to speak. I like that the Multiverse
article allows me to gain added insight as to where you are coming from in your
thoughts. It is more direct than analogy. I cannot think of another instance in
which to use this but I am interesting in pursuing this approach when it is
practical and useful. It lets me pretend to play detective. Now, I notice
consciously when you fed me the opportunity by using “Mr. Watson”. This is
another excellent example of how you are as compared to myself. Observers can
say what they want but sometimes I really feel you are something else again. Perhaps
this something else is no more than a part of myself, which I am not fully
aware of, a part that can channel my unconscious or subconscious into and out
of my normal conscious state. I see you presently as an altered reality not as
a dimensional state, but who knows. (1656) I think there is evidence of
yourself buried in and between the lines of both the novels and the blog, but
nothing that shows a proof of your reality beyond my physical and mental self.
That alone would serve for me as a kind of proof that it is possible that
consciousness can exist without a physical state. (1659) Life is interesting –
all the knowable facets. It is strange, looking back over today’s posting. I do
not remember any senses of ‘time’, yet I wrote it down as I usually do. Very
odd.
You are home. – Amorella
1728 hours. The groceries have been put away and I’ve
taken the evening portion of my pills. Now I am not sure where I was going, if
anywhere, with the above topic.
Evening.
You are about to sit down and watch "Grimm" in real time because it appears to you
that the cable box is not working correctly. You cannot copy or watch via the DVR.
You and Carol did take time to do something new; watching a few minutes of You-Tube videos, and you are
quite impressed viewing them on a larger television screen. - Amorella
2322
hours. The cable was good by ten. It had to be something between the house and
the outside lines. Time Warner did a good job for us tonight.
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