Parallel Universes
Jul 29, 2014
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Parallel Universes. Parallel. Parallel. Dr Susan Cartwright Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield. Parallel Universes. Are you unique? Could there be another “you” differing only in what you had for breakfast this morning?
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Parallel Universes Parallel Parallel Dr Susan Cartwright Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield
Parallel Universes • Are you unique? • Could there be another “you” differing only in what you had for breakfast this morning? • Could there be another Europe in which Germany won the second world war? • Could there be another Earth which wasn’t hit by a comet 65 million years ago, and on which dinosaurs are still the dominant group? • Could there be another Universe, in which not just history but all of physics is different? • All of these questions come under the heading of “parallel universes”
Parallel Universes • Consequences of an infinite universe • that which is not forbidden is compulsory • Consequences of cosmology • Chaotic inflation • Braneworlds • Consequences of quantum mechanics • Many Worlds • Consequences of mathematics • Mathematics as reality
An infinite universe a very, very long way! Our Hubble volume An exactly identical Hubble volume Same physical laws, different initial conditions
Cosmology: inflation Same “fundamental” (high energy) physical laws, different effective laws Some cosmologists see this as a good way of explaining “unexpectedly helpful” values of physical constants
Cosmology: braneworlds Same “fundamental” (high energy) physical laws, different effective laws May communicate with our universe via gravity
The “Many Worlds” of Quantum Mechanics Every possible outcome of a quantum event happens. Same fundamental physical laws, possibly different effective laws.
“The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” [Eugene Wigner, 1960] Mathematical structures do an unexpectedly good job of describing the universe Is the universe a mathematical structure? Are all sufficiently complicated mathematical structures universes?
Summary • If the universe is infinite (our best current guess) then “parallel Earths” are inevitable because they are possible • but they’re a VERY long way away • If chaotic inflation and/or braneworlds are right, then there are entire other universes • probably with quite different local physics • If the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics is right, multiple “parallel universes” must coexist right here • but we only perceive one • If some abstract mathematicians are right, any sufficiently complex mathematical structure could be experienced as a universe • very difficult to visualise or test!
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