Should we explore parallel universes? Or at least explore the idea of exploring parallel universes? There are still huge time and space constraints on finding and meeting possible intelligent life in this universe. However, if we could open gates to parallel universes, the chance of meeting intelligent life would be nearly 100 percent, although the life might be too similar to our own to offer much novelty. Of greater use might be the discovery of alternative earths that are not occupied by sentient beings. We could mine them for resources or colonize them with our excess population. If the parallel earths were inhospitable to humans, we might use them to dispose of nuclear wastes. Should we assign at least a token amount of the federal budget to explore these possibilities?
Yes, we should leave no stone uncovered in the mind. Our greatest tool is our mind and to not use it to explore everything is not in our nature. We are witnessing the birth of gods.
I don't think anyone in the scientific community is opposed to the exploration of parallel universes, the real issue is finding a way to do this. This kind of exploration is beyond our current understanding of the universe, there's just no good reason to think that at this point in our technological development throwing money at this problem would produce any fruitful results. I would much rather fund NASA to maybe get us closer to the point when we will be able to colonize other planets.
Are you under the impression that we're not exploring the idea of parallel universes already? The idea is explored often and in depth. Only, there is never any progress because we have no way of accessing these parallel universes. If there was, we'd be doing it.
The 19th-century German chemist, Friedrich Kekule, discovered the molecular structure of benzene through a dream in which a snake had its tail in its mouth, forming a circle. He interpreted the dream to mean that the structure of benzene was a closed carbon ring. Perhaps a contemporary scientist will have a dream that leads to a breakthrough in the confirmation of parallel universes. As dream content is in the form of metaphors, one could anticipate that a dream about parallel universes might incorporate equivalent symbolic images, such as encounters with twins or the dreamer peering through a mirror.
Been watching Fringe, I take it? Great show. But I wouldn't be so sure about parallel universes being so similar. After all, theoretically there are an infinite number of them. So while some would be indistinguishable from our own, others would be unrecognizable. And opening a gate to one would be a total stab in the dark. You might just open a window to a black hole, or an anti-matter universe, and (*)(*)(*)(*) everything off.
Scientists have always looked at and explored the outward universe. Scientists can use telescopes to look out into deep space. We all know it's infinite and continues forever -- so what else is there to know about it? Scientists should be developing microscopes to look into and explore the inward universe -- which is also infinite going in the reverse direction of the outer universe. Within the inward universe there are billions of galaxies and universes which have not been viewed and continue forever. There's some little (really little) people on some of those atoms and molecules who could help us in the application of nanotechnology. http://crnano.org/whatis.htm
Since we don't know how to "explore" them yet, it sounds like a waste of money, although I'm sure there are plenty of scientists who would be happy to take the grant money and vanish. If not to a parallel universe, than at least to the Bahamas.
I believe we may need to upgrade our computing infrastructure to better accommodate more research, even if we have to ditch a drug war.
Actually, most scientists don't believe that it is infinite. If it started from the big bang, and expanded outward, it would take infinite time to reach infinite size. Again, not supported. According to the current understanding of physics, there is a minimum size, called the Planck length. Nothing can be smaller.
What if the Romans had established commercial "colonias" through central planning in Germania, to harvest timber and function as public sector means of production for the government. It almost seems like an oversight to standing policy.
Conceivably, the government is already funding parallel universe research, with the budget hidden in a national security category. Advanced research might be classified and unpublished. Russia and China may also have their own parallel universe projects and are not sharing any information about them.
I believe in a fourth spatial dimension, but it is not a parallel universe. It is an extension of our own 3D, just as that is an extension of Flatland. However, the maximum speed in 4D is 6 of our light-years a second. That means a transmission through it and back would reach the other part of the galaxy in no time and we could photograph it. I'm just extending our achievements in 3D, so this is a possibility. But our degenerate authoritarians are so childishly nasty that one of them tried to pull off the irrational conclusion that I was saying that the maximum speed was 6 of 4D's light years a second, which is a contradiction. Such bullying distortions of a dissenting opinion is more evidence of Quantum Quackery by the Post-Clacks.
Being practical rather than an escapist into childish wish-fulfillment fantasies, I'd rather drain the oceans and melt all Earth's ice to get us fresh water. Also use a neutrino Geiger counter to map all the resources under the Earth. We've barely scratched the surface and you want us to run away from real potential right here.
i find it fascinating how some people dont know the difference between science and science fiction movies...god help us..we need all the help we can get
Nano is Greek for "dwarf," but you're seeing Snow White. This kind of extension into cartoonland is why Einstein foolishly made time into a dimension. A fourth spatial dimension was the obvious answer to the newly discovered phenomena, but long before facts fit that theory, 4Ders had degenerated into putting ghosts and other primitive fantasies there, making it embarrassing for real scientists and inhibiting them from choosing this rational answer instead of the Hollywood Wow! Science we are stuck with now.
I thought I already was, aren't some of the posters here from a parallel universe, please tell me they are.............................eeeeeeeeek.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing if elected representatives from a parallel universe were able to bear true witness to their own laws, even without a McCarthy era phrase in their pledge?
