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20 Feb 2011, 7:24 am

I've been thinking...

to us, the universe is everything in existence. Why am I telling you this? Because going by that, alternate universes don't exist to us, and we don't exist to people in parallel universes. So, in theory, there could be an infinite amount of universes with completely different laws of physics that don't exist to each other.

Anyways, ignore my ramblings and carry on.



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20 Feb 2011, 9:37 am

Lots of things we are yet to be able to explain:

13 things which make no sense, with our current understanding of things.

http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things


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20 Feb 2011, 12:11 pm

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You need to stop doing that. There is evidence for it, it just happens to support other ideas as well.


Evidence that supports two contrary positions is not evidence for either.

If p -> q and p->-q then p is false. Otherwise q & -q would be true which is a contradiction.

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20 Feb 2011, 1:17 pm

What positions are contrary? The MWI and CI for example aren't really contrary, one is just an expansion of the other. However, they're distinct interpretations.



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03 Mar 2011, 12:25 pm

Yowuza wrote:
I've been thinking...

to us, the universe is everything in existence. Why am I telling you this? Because going by that, alternate universes don't exist to us, and we don't exist to people in parallel universes. So, in theory, there could be an infinite amount of universes with completely different laws of physics that don't exist to each other.

Anyways, ignore my ramblings and carry on.



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03 Mar 2011, 2:14 pm

Biokinetica wrote:
You need to stop doing that. There is evidence for it, it just happens to support other ideas as well.


if p -> q and p-> -q then -p

Only a false proposition can imply another proposition and its negation.

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03 Mar 2011, 2:16 pm

supra_chiasma wrote:
Yowuza wrote:
I've been thinking...

to us, the universe is everything in existence. Why am I telling you this? Because going by that, alternate universes don't exist to us, and we don't exist to people in parallel universes. So, in theory, there could be an infinite amount of universes with completely different laws of physics that don't exist to each other.

Anyways, ignore my ramblings and carry on.



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One day we also may learn how to transport material / energy into a different universe or dimension.

It would be reasonable to assume that we would first of all need to figure out where another universe exists, attempt to create some theoretical framework as to how we may interact with it then if we can come up with at least 1, and hopefully many more plausible theories we could program a probe equipped with sophisticated AI and set it the task of transporting itself to another universe for a minute amount of time, recording data (we'd be able to record stuff quickly by this point in time id imagine) then transport itself back.

There would be no way of knowing if the probe would travel there in the first place, if it would come back or if how long it may really take to come back depending on things such as time, or distances and energies we can't even comprehend fully.

I should also point out any AI probe would need to be of the most robust design possible so that it can make it back in one piece. We'd hopefully have a good idea of laws of nature in another universe before travelling there and back but it is likely going to be hard to predict.


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03 Mar 2011, 2:18 pm

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One day we also may learn how to transport material / energy into a different universe or dimension.

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Given the conservation laws how do you propose to do that?

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03 Mar 2011, 2:29 pm

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One day we also may learn how to transport material / energy into a different universe or dimension.

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Given the conservation laws how do you propose to do that?

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Well there is no such thing as an absolute truth, which is why i said may learn to over come seemingly "natural" laws.

There is absolutely no way of telling with our current instrumentation that there will not be a way of over coming the law of conversation.

There is also absolutely no way of telling if the law of conversation would even have to be broken in the end.

We still have a lot to learn about how the universe operates and I am not for one second proposing there is a definite way of of doing everything but would like to state that anyone who says certain things regarding science are absolutely impossible, are probably narrow minded.


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03 Mar 2011, 11:37 pm

well, I can't disprove it...;) Unless I did in another universe...;)


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04 Mar 2011, 6:08 am

ruveyn wrote:
Biokinetica wrote:
You need to stop doing that. There is evidence for it, it just happens to support other ideas as well.


if p -> q and p-> -q then -p

Only a false proposition can imply another proposition and its negation.

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You can't say P yields -Q. That implies you are able to prove a negative. You can only prove what is, not what isn't. This is where propositional logic fails.



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04 Mar 2011, 6:56 am

Biokinetica wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Biokinetica wrote:
You need to stop doing that. There is evidence for it, it just happens to support other ideas as well.


if p -> q and p-> -q then -p

Only a false proposition can imply another proposition and its negation.

ruveyn

You can't say P yields -Q. That implies you are able to prove a negative. You can only prove what is, not what isn't. This is where propositional logic fails.


Oh yeah? p -> -(q&-q).

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04 Mar 2011, 9:55 am

i think they might be possible, our understanding of the universe are very vague at the moment, yes i know we have a lot of "natural laws" but in reality most of them are aproximations, untill someone finds a TOE its all speculation.


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04 Mar 2011, 12:56 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Biokinetica wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Biokinetica wrote:
You need to stop doing that. There is evidence for it, it just happens to support other ideas as well.


if p -> q and p-> -q then -p

Only a false proposition can imply another proposition and its negation.

ruveyn

You can't say P yields -Q. That implies you are able to prove a negative. You can only prove what is, not what isn't. This is where propositional logic fails.


Oh yeah? p -> -(q&-q).

ruveyn

You totally missed the point. Greek logic is binary. The universe is not. On top of that, you're ignoring the difference between a valid argument and a sound one.



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04 Mar 2011, 1:37 pm

The fourth dimension is time. (Quote)

That is unconfirmed, and really the idea is not very comforting for most scientists. I do not believe in a 'parallel universe' at all; due to the abundance of space expanding, I fail to believe that there is another paradoxical universe replicating the value of our Omega.


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04 Mar 2011, 3:53 pm

Biokinetica wrote:
You totally missed the point. Greek logic is binary. The universe is not. On top of that, you're ignoring the difference between a valid argument and a sound one.


No I am not. The universally quantified axioms of physical science are not empirically verifiable so any argument based on them cannot be sound. We simply do not know if these assumptions are true.

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