what separates universes in a multiverse?

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by Buckaroo Banzai, May 9, 2006.

  1. Buckaroo Banzai Mentat Registered Senior Member

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    I know that there are many multiverse hypothesis... so may be that there is not a general answer... but however... just in case... what lies between universes in a multiverse? Some sort of nothingness that is not even space, not vacuum?

    Or the noncommunicability of universes is just a matter of immense spacial separation? More or less like hardly mutually reachable distant objects in a expanding universe?
     
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  3. Novacane Registered Senior Member

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    I don't even think anyone down here can even begin to guess 'what' or 'if' there is a real answer to your question. However, if I were a betting man, I guess the so-called 'nothingess' between universes 'could be' filled along the way with a few 'Starbucks' coffee houses for those weary space travelers to get a lift from those long mega-light year flights from parts unknown in the galaxy.
     
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  5. Blandnuts Registered Senior Member

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    Better be some damn good coffee.

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  7. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    Boundry conditions uniquely different from those within the 'verses.
     
  8. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    PEANUT BUTTER! LOTS OF IT!

    sorry, just felt like being a jackass =]
     
  9. Mosheh Thezion Registered Senior Member

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    THE GOD PLANE...

    where in exist the multiverses... with universes, budding like flower pedals, and where the fundamental difference between each in a bunch.. is a progressive change in the fundamentals values used in its creation... such that for example.. Pi.. 3.14 may vary... and may follow along a set patterned range....

    each higher, or more complex universe, having a higher number.. such as 3.75, and then 4.25 etc... meaning that fundamentally, what is a circle, is altered, and so the nature of space and time itself within each universe is made different by the variations in Pi value... etc.

    the God plane would itself be of a nature far and beyond those of any of the universes, and would be to our universe, as our universe is now... to a flower.

    -MT
     
  10. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    of course this is a mere speculation on a double assumption, i.e., fantasy,
    but I assume it could be that there might exist something not entirely unlike gravity/dark energy, i.e., forces which prevent those universes frequently colliding with each other.
    of course, and I say again, it's a mere fantasy not worth a lot more than the speculation on coffee shops, but I hope that those are like French coffee shops, not shitty Starbucks.
     
  11. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    The universe has many branches that it can take, essentially probabilistic in nature, but there is only a single outcome - the one we experience. This mends the gap between free will and fate, and it is useless to argue for one of the two.
     
  12. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Since multiverse theories are basically just arm-waving, they could as easily be quantum phenomena as anything else. The individual universes may exist in different discrete states. So the boundaries between them are mathematical, not physical.
     
  13. wootboot Registered Member

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    quantum foam that is full of billions of the tiniest wormholes through which one can travel - none of this is official, just part of the crazy theory
     
  14. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    I heard the space was filled with the corpses of dead superheroes.
     
  15. Jaster Mereel Hostis Humani Generis Registered Senior Member

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    What you just described would not be a multiverse, but a classical universe, wherein there may be two possible outcomes for any given event, but that once the event occurs only one of those outcomes actually exists. The multiverse idea that I am acquainted with states that both outcomes exist after the event occurs, which is what causes the multiverse to expand. I could be way off, but I am fairly certain that's the way it was put into laymen's terms. Can anyone who knows more about this refine or correct my assumption?
     
  16. Novacane Registered Senior Member

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    Ask God. He would know.
     
  17. Jaster Mereel Hostis Humani Generis Registered Senior Member

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    Do you have the number for his office? What are his hours? HELP PLEASE.
     
  18. Novacane Registered Senior Member

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    Sure.....Glad to help.

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    He's usually in the office most of the time. If not, just leave a message.

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