Firstly, this site hijacked my back button, which is always an annoying experience for me.
Moving to the topic, I didn’t understand a lot of what was said in the video (I’m not a physicist or an astrophysicist), but I found the sample depiction of a person in parallel worlds funny and meaningless. They showed a man wearing different colored clothes or having a different car. It seemed to be dumbing down things a lot before going to high gear and trying to explain things that are very difficult to explain (especially in a short video). The concept of a “person” as a unit is well maintained in those depictions but the clothes they wear or the car they use are separate from them. Well, if it’s just a combination of how molecules assemble in a parallel universe, it could be that this same person has different parents, different (or no) siblings, and so on. Except for some physical resemblance to one particular piece of mass, a whole lot of things could be very, very different. Among all the parallel universes that could exist, one differing only in the color of clothes worn at a particular time seems…very rare and weird.
If my great-grandparents 10 generations back didn’t copulate at just the right time (and millions of other interactions since then don’t line up), the chances of a “me” existing over there are nil. Same for all of us. So maybe there is another dimension, but it has virtually no relation to this one (everything I said about “me” would also apply to the earth, the sun, etc).
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadMoving to the topic, I didn’t understand a lot of what was said in the video (I’m not a physicist or an astrophysicist), but I found the sample depiction of a person in parallel worlds funny and meaningless. They showed a man wearing different colored clothes or having a different car. It seemed to be dumbing down things a lot before going to high gear and trying to explain things that are very difficult to explain (especially in a short video). The concept of a “person” as a unit is well maintained in those depictions but the clothes they wear or the car they use are separate from them. Well, if it’s just a combination of how molecules assemble in a parallel universe, it could be that this same person has different parents, different (or no) siblings, and so on. Except for some physical resemblance to one particular piece of mass, a whole lot of things could be very, very different. Among all the parallel universes that could exist, one differing only in the color of clothes worn at a particular time seems…very rare and weird.