Temporally Random Universe

[astralith]

I realize “time travel” and “parallel worlds” have probably been discussed to death here but I think I have unique thought on this subject. Assuming one could time travel, wouldn’t the point in time you reach be as random as the direction a lightning bolt might take? I mean, you might know where lightning will strike if you set up a lightning rod but you can’t know the path it’ll take there right?<br /><br />Should reaching a destination in the past or future be just as random? Say I want to go back to see a historical event (like the KT impact), might it be that even though the event is in my taught or remembered history, I might not land in THAT history (say, where the asteroid missed)?<br /><br />Do I understand what quantum theory alludes to? If there are multi-verses spawned for each and every single particle in each universe, shouldn’t there be a multi-past and multi-future for each one as well?<br /><br />Picture those plasma globes you can buy at your local Spencer’s novelty store. The little electron streams go everywhere (omni-directional). If I looked at the thing while going backward in time, would I see a different pattern of bolts (albeit in reverse) than I ought to expect? Why should the randomness be temporally forward only? Were you born in the past? Is your presence here a fluke?<br />

 

[vogon13]

Billy Pilgrim had a temporally random life . . . <br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[weeman]

<font color="yellow"> Do I understand what quantum theory alludes to? If there are multi-verses spawned for each and every single particle in each universe, shouldn’t there be a multi-past and multi-future for each one as well? <br /> </font><br /><br />I'd say you're on your way to having a good understanding of multi-verse theory. Remember that it's only theory, no one can <i>really</i> tell you that you're wrong <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />One side of multi-verse theory suggests that our universe is just one of an infinite amount of universes, which exist in a higher-dimensional "uber-universe" (which is how Speedfreek often refers to it <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> ). <br /><br />In other words, our universe consists of as many as 11 dimensions. In every day life, we are used to 3 spatial dimensions, and a 4th dimension of time. However, recent advancements in M-theory suggest that 11-dimensional membranes, dubbed "brane" for short, are constantly creating new universes. This means that other big bangs may have happened in other universes.<br /><br />Moreover, if there are an infinite amount of other universes out there in the higher-dimensional brane universe, then it might mean that each universe is unique in its own ways. Each of these universes governs different laws of physics and science. Newton's laws of motion wouldn't apply to these other universes. <br /><br />I've even heard astrophysicists say that other universes may have neither space nor time, they have something else. So what does a universe look like with no space and time? Who the heck knows! None of us can comprehend that. <br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>