Parallel Universes

[Steve Long]

This article may be of interest to some of you:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000

[Talon]

In that case, congratulations on being nominated for all categories of the Origins awards. :)

[BobGreenwade]

What I find crazy about this (assuming that the theory is indeed accurate) is that it means that, essentially, everything being published by Hero Games, and everything that happens in all of our campaigns, is essentially true -- in the infinite expanse of four different types of parallel universes, everything in the books and in the games actually happens.

We could even eventually be visited by someone from one of those other universes. Really.

[Jhamin]

We could even eventually be visited by someone from one of those other universes. Really.

Of course another implacation is that there are worlds that are defined by the fact that they are never visited by anyone, that is what makes them unique.

The question is, which kind are we on?

[Blue]

I hope my duplicate has a better understanding of physics than I do.

Regardless it's still a good read.

[Gary]

I doubt very much that we'll be visited. If there is a greater than 0% chance of us being visited, it would have happened already according to the article.

[BobGreenwade]

Originally posted by Gary
I doubt very much that we'll be visited. If there is a greater than 0% chance of us being visited, it would have happened already according to the article. Maybe it has, but we're just not aware of it (at least, the versions of us that we are).

[BlackSword]

Reading through the article I was looking for a reference to Michael Moorkcock. No one knows more about the Multiverse then him

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by BlackSword
Reading through the article I was looking for a reference to Michael Moorkcock. No one knows more about the Multiverse then him

Nobody except Elric.
I mean Corum... no, Hawkmoon... no, I mean.....

[dbsousa]

Originally posted by BobGreenwade
What I find crazy about this (assuming that the theory is indeed accurate) is that it means that, essentially, everything being published by Hero Games, and everything that happens in all of our campaigns, is essentially true -- in the infinite expanse of four different types of parallel universes, everything in the books and in the games actually happens.


I thought the article said quite the opposite. The number of alternate universes is in fact finite, and limited to the rules of physics.

[Heroman]

I am a firm believer of Amber. We are all just messed up shadow worlds.....

[Killer Shrike]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-- Albert Einstein

[Killer Shrike]

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

-- Bill Watterson, cartoonist

[Killer Shrike]

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

-- Douglas Adams

[Killer Shrike]

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky

[BobGreenwade]

Originally posted by dbsousa
I thought the article said quite the opposite. The number of alternate universes is in fact finite, and limited to the rules of physics. Look again! :D The number of universes just on our own plane of existence (Type I) is infinite. By the time you move up to Type IV parallelism, even the rules of physics are mutable.

Someone, somewhere, is watching these boards with great interest.... ;)

[Wyrm Ouroboros]

So keep on the lookout for Corwin or Random, okay?

[Tom McCarthy]

So 'somewhere' there's a Level IV parallel universe where the laws of physics are the HERO System 5th edition.

And another where it's 4th edition, and another for 3rd, and one that's 5th edition, but the extra DCs from STR are prorated by the advantages on the HA, and...

Cool, but strange.

[And yes, I know enough mathematics to know that the HERO System isn't the type of mathematical model they're talking about.]